Should I start Josh Jacobs or Cam Skattebo in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cam Skattebo, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 12.5 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.

The market-based projection for Cam Skattebo is 7.0 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.

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, Cam Skattebo has been on the field for 54 percent of NYG snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 3 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 2.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 18 times for 58 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 13 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 0 times for 0 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 Cam Skattebo played 8 games and scored 127.7 PPR points, 16.0 a game, finishing RB37.

He carried 101 times for 410 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 32 targets for 207 more yards.

That came to 12.6 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Jacobs was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Cam Skattebo scored 16.0 PPR points a game and Josh Jacobs 15.8, 0.2 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 that year and Cam Skattebo RB37.

Josh Jacobs had 133 more carries than Cam Skattebo, 234 to 101.

Josh Jacobs had 12 more catches than Cam Skattebo, 36 to 24.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 and Cam Skattebo in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.