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Should I start Jordan Love or Chig Okonkwo in Week 8?

Updated Oct 29, 1:26 AM ET.

Start Jordan Love: his market-based projection is 8.6 points a game ahead of Chig Okonkwo's this season.

Should I drop Chig Okonkwo for Jordan Love?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jordan Love projects 149 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.5 a game over 9 games), Chig Okonkwo 77 (7.7 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

QB15 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 4-3

Market-based projection
16.8 pts a game

TE15 · WAS · bye 7

2025 vs rec yds line 7-5

Market-based projection
8.1 pts a game

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The gap

  • Price difference8.6 points a game
  • Board size306 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from the market projection.

The market-based projections

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 25th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Chig Okonkwo's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 6, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 65 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 6.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 2 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

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

Chig Okonkwo was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 8.8 a game between them.

Jordan Love finished QB15 and Chig Okonkwo TE21, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Love is a quarterback and Chig Okonkwo a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Love is off in Week 11 and Chig Okonkwo in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Chig Okonkwo for Jordan Love?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Jordan Love projects 149 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.5 a game over 9 games), Chig Okonkwo 77 (7.7 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Jordan Love for Chig Okonkwo?

    No. Keep Jordan Love: he projects 149 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.5 a game over 9 games), Chig Okonkwo 77 (7.7 a game over 10 games).

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