Should I start DeVonta Smith or Josh Jacobs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeVonta Smith, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 11; 2QB: ADP 28.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

DeVonta Smith's market-based projection is 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 12.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, DeVonta Smith has been on the field for 86 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 33 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 41 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against TEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 117 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against CHI he caught 6 of 8 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 7 of 14 targets for 75 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 DeVonta Smith played 17 games and scored 201.8 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR20.

He caught 77 of 113 targets for 1008 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 13.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

DeVonta Smith was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and DeVonta Smith 11.9, 3.9 a game between them.

DeVonta Smith finished WR20 and Josh Jacobs RB13, which are two different ladders.

DeVonta Smith is a wide receiver 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

DeVonta Smith is off in Week 10 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.