Should I start Josh Jacobs or Brock Bowers in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.

Through Week 6, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 78 percent of LV snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 43 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 4 of 9 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.

He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Jacobs was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Brock Bowers 14.7, 1.1 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 and Brock Bowers TE11, which are two different ladders.

Josh Jacobs is a running back and Brock Bowers a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 and Brock Bowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.