Should I start Chase Brown or Jordan Love in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 19.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Chase Brown is 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 17.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Chase Brown has been on the field for 71 percent of CIN snaps, taken 63 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 4 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 9 times for 10 yards, caught 11 of 11 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 13 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 11 times for 39 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Jordan Love has been on the field for 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 286 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 52 of 286 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 5 against CHI he completed 25 of 31 passes for 367 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he completed 23 of 41 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

In Week 7 against DET he completed 27 of 45 passes for 274 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chase Brown played 17 games and scored 282.6 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing RB7.

He carried 232 times for 1019 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 69 of 88 targets for 437 more yards.

That came to 13.6 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 4.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.

He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Jordan Love 16.1, 0.5 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 and Jordan Love QB15, which are two different ladders.

Chase Brown is a running back and Jordan Love a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and Jordan Love in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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