Should I start Jaylen Wright or Bryce Young in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 5:31 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 25, 4:13 PM ET: Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Quadriceps) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 21, 5:13 PM ET: Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Bryce Young: 94 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jaylen Wright's 17 percent of the snaps and 19 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.

Should I drop Jaylen Wright for Bryce Young?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.8 a game over 10 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.

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

Jaylen Wright

RB27 · MIA · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank: 79

Bryce Young

QB9 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs pass yds line 5-1

Market-based projection: 16.8 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 Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 8 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Bryce Young has been on the field for 94 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 250 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 41 of 250 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he completed 20 of 39 passes for 281 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.

In Week 7 against TB he completed 14 of 27 passes for 163 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 9 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.

He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bryce Young was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 9.5 a game between them.

Jaylen Wright finished RB70 and Bryce Young QB19, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Wright is a running back and Bryce Young a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bryce Young is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jaylen Wright for Bryce Young?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.8 a game over 10 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.
Should I drop Bryce Young for Jaylen Wright?
No. Keep Bryce Young: he projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.8 a game over 10 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.

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