Should I start Jaxon Smith-Njigba or Drake London in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and the board ranks him 3rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 8.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake London, and the board ranks him 13th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Jaxon Smith-Njigba, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Drake London's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Jaxon Smith-Njigba has been on the field for 83 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 36 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 28 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 15 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 78 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 1 time for 16 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 102 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 12 of 16 targets for 134 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 2 times for 13 yards, caught 9 of 12 targets for 150 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Drake London has been on the field for 88 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 23 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 62 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 4 of 10 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 7 of 10 targets for 66 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 1 of 6 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaxon Smith-Njigba played 17 games and scored 359.9 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing WR2.

He caught 119 of 163 targets for 1793 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 9.6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Drake London played 12 games and scored 201.9 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing WR19.

He caught 68 of 112 targets for 919 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 9.3 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 14 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 90 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaxon Smith-Njigba scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Drake London 16.8, 4.3 a game between them.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba finished WR2 that year and Drake London WR19.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba had 51 more targets than Drake London, 163 to 112.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba had 874 more receiving yards than Drake London, 1793 to 919.

This season Drake London holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 83 percent.

This season Jaxon Smith-Njigba holds the bigger target share, 36 percent against 29 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Drake London is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jaxon Smith-Njigba has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.