Should I start Ja'Kobi Lane or D'Andre Swift in Week 8?

Updated Oct 29, 1:26 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start D'Andre Swift: 67 percent of the snaps and 55 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Ja'Kobi Lane's 54 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets. 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 Ja'Kobi Lane for D'Andre Swift?

Yes, on the rest of the season. D'Andre Swift projects 138 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 9 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 38 (4.2 a game over 9 games).

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

Ja'Kobi Lane

WR42 · BAL · bye 13

Market-based projection: 6.9 pts a game

D'Andre Swift

RB38 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 6-1

Market-based projection: 16.3 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 121

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The gap

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 each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ja'Kobi Lane, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on D'Andre Swift, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

The market-based projections

Ja'Kobi Lane's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 4.3 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.

D'Andre Swift's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Ja'Kobi Lane has been on the field for 54 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 29 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against IND he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 14 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 9 times for 43 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 16 times for 44 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 26 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against NE he carried 22 times for 78 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

Ja'Kobi Lane is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Ja'Kobi Lane is a wide receiver and D'Andre Swift a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Ja'Kobi Lane is off in Week 13 and D'Andre Swift in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Ja'Kobi Lane for D'Andre Swift?
Yes, on the rest of the season. D'Andre Swift projects 138 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 9 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 38 (4.2 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop D'Andre Swift for Ja'Kobi Lane?
No. Keep D'Andre Swift: he projects 138 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 9 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 38 (4.2 a game over 9 games).