Denver Defense or Josh Jacobs: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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DEF3 · DEN · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 204
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 1
RB56 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 8-7
- Overall rank
- 206
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Denver Defense: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 204th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Jacobs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 206th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Denver Defense, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Josh Jacobs, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Denver Defense in the last completed season.
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.
Side by side
Denver Defense is a defense and Josh Jacobs a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Denver Defense is off in Week 10 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.
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