D'Andre Swift or Jaylen Warren: who should I start?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price D'Andre Swift at 13.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 50th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

The player markets price Jaylen Warren at 12.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 59th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 13; 2QB: ADP 58.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Warren: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 86.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 57 percent of CHI snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 46 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 3 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against CAR he carried 18 times for 124 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

Through Week 1, Jaylen Warren has been on the field for 37 percent of PIT snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 10 times for 46 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jaylen Warren played 16 games and scored 217.1 PPR points, 13.6 a game, finishing RB17.

He carried 211 times for 958 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 333 more yards.

That came to 13.2 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 2.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jaylen Warren 13.6, 0.7 a game between them.

D'Andre Swift finished RB15 that year and Jaylen Warren RB17.

D'Andre Swift had 12 more carries than Jaylen Warren, 223 to 211.

Jaylen Warren had 6 more catches than D'Andre Swift, 40 to 34.

This season D'Andre Swift holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 37 percent.

This season Jaylen Warren holds the bigger share of the carries, 56 percent against 46 percent.

Byes and availability

D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10 and Jaylen Warren in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.1 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.