Should I start CJ Donaldson or LeQuint Allen Jr. in Week 7?
Updated Oct 22, 12:16 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 LeQuint Allen Jr.'s 15 percent of the snaps and 1 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
Our board does not carry CJ Donaldson 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.
Our board does not carry LeQuint Allen Jr. 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
No season market is posted for CJ Donaldson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for LeQuint Allen Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
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, LeQuint Allen Jr. has been on the field for 13 percent of JAX snaps, taken 1 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.
In Week 4 against CIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against HOU he carried 1 time for 1 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 LeQuint Allen Jr. played 17 games and scored 26.8 PPR points, 1.6 a game, finishing RB86.
He carried 23 times for 94 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 11 targets for 54 more yards.
That came to 1.4 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.
He was on the field for 23 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger snap share, 28 percent against 13 percent.
This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger share of the carries, 11 percent against 1 percent.
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