Justin Jefferson or D'Andre Swift: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Justin Jefferson at 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 books. That is the 41st highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

The player markets price D'Andre Swift at 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 books. That is the 48th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Jefferson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 4; 2QB: ADP 28.

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 13; 2QB: ADP 59.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Justin Jefferson has been on the field for 96 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 36 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against GB he caught 8 of 9 targets for 92 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 2 against CHI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 4 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 16 times for 45 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Justin Jefferson played 17 games and scored 201.5 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR21.

He caught 84 of 141 targets for 1048 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 8.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 12.5 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 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.

Justin Jefferson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Justin Jefferson 11.9, 2.4 a game between them.

Justin Jefferson finished WR21 and D'Andre Swift RB15, which are two different ladders.

Justin Jefferson 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

Justin Jefferson is off in Week 6 and D'Andre Swift in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.6 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.