Should I start Jeremiyah Love or Bryce Young in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 10:06 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 23, 2:46 PM ET: Cards rookie RB Jeremiyah Love to miss second straight game with ankle injury (ESPN)
Oct 23, 2:13 PM ET: Jeremiyah Love: Questionable to Out (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 6:13 PM ET: Jeremiyah Love: Doubtful to Questionable (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Bryce Young: 94 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremiyah Love's 54 percent of the snaps and 66 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 Jeremiyah Love for Bryce Young?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Jeremiyah Love 95 (10.5 a game over 9 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

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

Jeremiyah Love

RB28 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-2

Overall rank: 82

Bryce Young

QB11 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs pass yds line 5-1

Market-based projection: 16.7 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 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremiyah Love is 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 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 16.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 199 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 so far

Through Week 5, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he carried 21 times for 90 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

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

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

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.

Side by side

Jeremiyah Love 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

Jeremiyah Love is off in Week 14 and Bryce Young in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as out 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.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jeremiyah Love for Bryce Young?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Jeremiyah Love 95 (10.5 a game over 9 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.
Should I drop Bryce Young for Jeremiyah Love?
No. Keep Bryce Young: he projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Jeremiyah Love 95 (10.5 a game over 9 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

Should I drop Bryce Young?