Isaiah Likely or Jeremiyah Love: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Isaiah Likely's market-based projection is 12.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Jeremiyah Love's market-based projection is 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Isaiah Likely: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jeremiyah Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 29.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Isaiah Likely has been on the field for 70 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 7.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against TEN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 7 of 12 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 11 of 13 targets for 94 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 5, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he carried 21 times for 90 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 14 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 12 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Isaiah Likely played 14 games and scored 61.7 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing TE45.

He caught 27 of 36 targets for 307 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Isaiah Likely is a tight end and Jeremiyah Love a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Isaiah Likely is off in Week 8 and Jeremiyah Love in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

2.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.