Should I start Jake Ferguson or Brevyn Spann-Ford in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 5.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Brevyn Spann-Ford's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 137th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brevyn Spann-Ford, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 66 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Brevyn Spann-Ford has been on the field for 39 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 4 of 5 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brevyn Spann-Ford played 17 games and scored 24.0 PPR points, 1.4 a game, finishing TE73.

He caught 9 of 13 targets for 90 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Jake Ferguson scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Brevyn Spann-Ford 1.4, 9.7 a game between them.

Jake Ferguson finished TE5 that year and Brevyn Spann-Ford TE73.

Jake Ferguson had 89 more targets than Brevyn Spann-Ford, 102 to 13.

Jake Ferguson had 510 more receiving yards than Brevyn Spann-Ford, 600 to 90.

This season Jake Ferguson holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 39 percent.

This season Jake Ferguson holds the bigger target share, 9 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Jake Ferguson is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Brevyn Spann-Ford.

What would change the answer

0.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.