Should I start Chase Brown or Josh Jacobs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Chase Brown is 4.8 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.

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Chase Brown has been on the field for 70 percent of CIN snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 4 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 13 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

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.

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

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 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.

Chase Brown was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Josh Jacobs 15.8, 0.8 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.

Josh Jacobs had 2 more carries than Chase Brown, 234 to 232.

Chase Brown had 33 more catches than Josh Jacobs, 69 to 36.

Byes and availability

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

Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.