Should I start DeMario Douglas or Jahmyr Gibbs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahmyr Gibbs, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.

The market-based projections

DeMario Douglas's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jahmyr Gibbs is 8.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 53 percent of NE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 7 of 8 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 77 percent of DET snaps, taken 82 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 13 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 1.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 20 times for 99 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 65 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against CAR he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ARI he carried 25 times for 151 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 56 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.

He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs played 17 games and scored 366.9 PPR points, 21.6 a game, finishing RB3.

He carried 243 times for 1223 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 77 of 94 targets for 616 more yards.

That came to 14.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 4-5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 15.9 a game between them.

DeMario Douglas finished WR65 and Jahmyr Gibbs RB3, which are two different ladders.

DeMario Douglas is a wide receiver and Jahmyr Gibbs a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

DeMario Douglas is off in Week 11 and Jahmyr Gibbs in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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