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Should I start Josh Jacobs or Eli Raridon in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 4:11 AM ET.

Start Eli Raridon: he has been on the field this season, 48 percent of the snaps, and Josh Jacobs has no snap on record yet. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Josh Jacobs

RB26 · GB · bye 11

2025 vs rush yds line 8-7

Overall rank
73

Eli Raridon

TE8 · NE · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection
3.9 pts a game

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Eli Raridon's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

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

Through Week 6, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 49 percent of NE snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 7.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 5 of 5 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 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.

Eli Raridon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Josh Jacobs is a running back and Eli Raridon a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.

Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.

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.

Both players in full

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