Should I start Josh Jacobs or Darnell Mooney in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Mooney, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Darnell Mooney's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 106th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

Josh Jacobs's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 47 percent of GB snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 5 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 21 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 13 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 4 times for 5 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Darnell Mooney has been on the field for 55 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 1 time for 20 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against HOU he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.

He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Darnell Mooney played 15 games and scored 82.3 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR79.

He caught 32 of 72 targets for 443 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 44 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 10.3 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 and Darnell Mooney WR79, which are two different ladders.

Josh Jacobs is a running back and Darnell Mooney a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 and Darnell Mooney in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Josh Jacobs is listed as out on the injury report.

Darnell Mooney is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Josh Jacobs has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.