Should I start Josh Jacobs or Derrick Henry in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 12th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Derrick Henry, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Josh Jacobs's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Derrick Henry is 6.4 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 52 percent of GB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 13 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.

His 7 targets have averaged 5.1 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.

Through Week 7, Derrick Henry has been on the field for 57 percent of BAL snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 51 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 15 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 24 times for 102 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 17 times for 58 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he carried 17 times for 45 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 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 Derrick Henry played 17 games and scored 279.5 PPR points, 16.4 a game, finishing RB8.

He carried 307 times for 1595 yards and 16 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 21 targets for 150 more yards.

That came to 18.1 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Derrick Henry was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Derrick Henry scored 16.4 PPR points a game and Josh Jacobs 15.8, 0.6 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 that year and Derrick Henry RB8.

Derrick Henry had 73 more carries than Josh Jacobs, 307 to 234.

Josh Jacobs had 21 more catches than Derrick Henry, 36 to 15.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 52 percent.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger share of the carries, 71 percent against 58 percent.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 and Derrick Henry in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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