Jakobi Meyers or D'Andre Swift: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jakobi Meyers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

The market-based projections

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 8.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 93rd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 5.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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 5

Through Week 5, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 81 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 64 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 56 percent of CHI snaps, taken 44 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 10 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 20 times for 84 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 15 times for 58 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jakobi Meyers 11.0, 3.3 a game between them.

Jakobi Meyers finished WR32 and D'Andre Swift RB15, which are two different ladders.

Jakobi Meyers 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

Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7 and D'Andre Swift in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.