Should I start Jeremy McNichols or DeMario Douglas in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 6.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

DeMario Douglas's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 18 percent of WAS snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

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

In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 55 percent of NE snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

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.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.

He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.

That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 DeMario Douglas scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 1.4 a game between them.

Jeremy McNichols finished RB58 and DeMario Douglas WR65, which are two different ladders.

Jeremy McNichols is a running back and DeMario Douglas a wide receiver, 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. No bye is listed for Jeremy McNichols.

What would change the answer

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