Should I start Bucky Irving or Josh Jacobs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bucky Irving, and the board ranks him 15th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 15.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 13.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 65 percent of TB snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 21 times for 165 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against PIT he carried 19 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

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

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.

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.

Josh Jacobs was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Bucky Irving 13.9, 2.0 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.

Josh Jacobs had 61 more carries than Bucky Irving, 234 to 173.

Josh Jacobs had 6 more catches than Bucky Irving, 36 to 30.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Bucky Irving is listed as questionable on the injury report.