Should I start Jauan Jennings or DK Metcalf in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jauan Jennings, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DK Metcalf, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jauan Jennings's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for DK Metcalf is 3.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jauan Jennings has been on the field for 70 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, DK Metcalf has been on the field for 95 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 58 targets have averaged 12.7 air yards.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 11 of 15 targets for 93 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 2 of 6 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jauan Jennings played 15 games and scored 173.3 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing WR33.

He caught 55 of 90 targets for 643 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DK Metcalf played 15 games and scored 187.2 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing WR26.

He caught 59 of 99 targets for 850 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 DK Metcalf scored 12.5 PPR points a game and Jauan Jennings 11.6, 0.9 a game between them.

Jauan Jennings finished WR33 that year and DK Metcalf WR26.

DK Metcalf had 9 more targets than Jauan Jennings, 99 to 90.

DK Metcalf had 207 more receiving yards than Jauan Jennings, 850 to 643.

This season DK Metcalf holds the bigger snap share, 95 percent against 70 percent.

This season DK Metcalf holds the bigger target share, 24 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Jauan Jennings is off in Week 6 and DK Metcalf in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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