Should I start CJ Donaldson or Isaiah Davis in Week 7?
Updated Oct 23, 6:41 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
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Start CJ Donaldson: 37 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Isaiah Davis's 12 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on CJ Donaldson, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Isaiah Davis at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for CJ Donaldson is 3.2 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.
No season market is posted for Isaiah Davis, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, CJ Donaldson has been on the field for 28 percent of NO snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 37 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 4 times for 13 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYG he carried 6 times for 39 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Isaiah Davis has been on the field for 12 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 19 third down targets and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 5.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against CHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CLE he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NE he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
CJ Donaldson is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Isaiah Davis played 16 games and scored 71.2 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing RB59.
He carried 43 times for 236 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 21 of 28 targets for 186 more yards.
That came to 2.7 carries a game at 6 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger snap share, 28 percent against 12 percent.
This season Isaiah Davis holds the bigger share of the carries, 13 percent against 11 percent.
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