Should I start Isaac TeSlaa or Jaylen Warren in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Warren, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jaylen Warren is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 60 percent of DET snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 12.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 4 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Jaylen Warren has been on the field for 74 percent of PIT snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 24 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have come 1.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 15 times for 101 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 87 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 14 times for 50 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he carried 18 times for 101 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jaylen Warren played 16 games and scored 217.1 PPR points, 13.6 a game, finishing RB17.

He carried 211 times for 958 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 333 more yards.

That came to 13.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Isaac TeSlaa was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Warren scored 13.6 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 9.1 a game between them.

Isaac TeSlaa finished WR82 and Jaylen Warren RB17, which are two different ladders.

Isaac TeSlaa is a wide receiver and Jaylen Warren a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Isaac TeSlaa is off in Week 6 and Jaylen Warren in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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