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Should I start Jeremiyah Love or Brian Thomas Jr. in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 7:16 AM ET.

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  • : Jeremiyah Love: Out to IR (Ankle, Sprain) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Sources: Cardinals' Jeremiyah Love to IR, out 4-5 weeks with high ankle sprain (ESPN)
  • : Jeremiyah Love: Questionable to Out (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Brian Thomas Jr.: 52 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremiyah Love's 37 percent of the snaps and 49 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Jeremiyah Love

RB44 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Market-based projection
10.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
129

Brian Thomas Jr.

WR47 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
3.7 pts a game

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremiyah Love, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 29.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Thomas Jr., and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremiyah Love is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brian Thomas Jr.'s market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 128th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Jeremiyah Love's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 44 percent of ARI snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 64 third down targets, had 3 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 14 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 12 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he carried 9 times for 23 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Brian Thomas Jr. has been on the field for 52 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 5 third down targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 19.0 air yards.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. played 14 games and scored 138.8 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing WR42.

He caught 48 of 91 targets for 707 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Jeremiyah Love is a running back and Brian Thomas Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jeremiyah Love is off in Week 14 and Brian Thomas Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jeremiyah Love has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Should I drop Brian Thomas Jr.?

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