Should I start Jaylen Wright or CJ Donaldson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 3:41 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 21, 6:13 PM ET: CJ Donaldson: Listed Questionable (Shoulder) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 21, 5:13 PM ET: Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start CJ Donaldson: 37 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jaylen Wright's 15 percent of the snaps and 16 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.

Should I drop CJ Donaldson for Jaylen Wright?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jaylen Wright projects 38 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.8 a game over 10 games), CJ Donaldson 21 (2.3 a game over 9 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.

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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.

Jaylen Wright

RB44 · MIA · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Overall rank: 144

CJ Donaldson

RB49 · NO · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Overall rank: 154

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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 Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on CJ Donaldson, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 2 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

CJ Donaldson is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger snap share, 28 percent against 13 percent.

This season Jaylen Wright holds the bigger share of the carries, 14 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Drop or keep

Should I drop CJ Donaldson for Jaylen Wright?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jaylen Wright projects 38 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.8 a game over 10 games), CJ Donaldson 21 (2.3 a game over 9 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.
Should I drop Jaylen Wright for CJ Donaldson?
No. Keep Jaylen Wright: he projects 38 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.8 a game over 10 games), CJ Donaldson 21 (2.3 a game over 9 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.