Should I start Isaac TeSlaa or Josh Jacobs in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 104th 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 13 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 5.0 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 56 percent of DET snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.

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

In Week 8 against MIN he was not given the ball.

In Week 9 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 47 percent of GB snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 5 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 21 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 13 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 4 times for 5 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 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.

Isaac TeSlaa was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 11.3 a game between them.

Isaac TeSlaa finished WR82 and Josh Jacobs RB13, which are two different ladders.

Isaac TeSlaa 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

Isaac TeSlaa is off in Week 6 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Josh Jacobs is listed as out 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.