Bucky Irving or Jeremiyah Love: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Bucky Irving at 13.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 57th highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

The player markets price Jeremiyah Love at 10.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 86th highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 67.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jeremiyah Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 48.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 70 percent of TB snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 4.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against CIN he carried 8 times for 45 yards, caught 7 of 7 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against CLE he carried 17 times for 89 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 42 percent of ARI snaps, taken 42 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 33 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.7 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against SEA he carried 9 times for 29 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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

Head to head

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 42 percent.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 57 percent against 42 percent.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10 and Jeremiyah Love in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

2.5 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.