Should I start Jordan James or Jacob Saylors in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Jordan James: 10 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the carries over their last 2 games, against Jacob Saylors's 3 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the carries. 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB61 · SF · bye 8
- Overall rank
- 185
RB62 · DET · bye 6
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- Overall rank
- 187
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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 Jordan James, and the board ranks him 185th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jordan James is 0.4 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.
The market-based projection for Jacob Saylors is 0.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.
Jordan James's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Jordan James has been on the field for 10 percent of SF snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 12 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.
His 1 target have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against MIA he carried 4 times for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against ATL he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
Through Week 3, Jacob Saylors has been on the field for 3 percent of DET snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jordan James played 3 games.
He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.
He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jacob Saylors played 16 games and scored 1.1 PPR points, 0.1 a game, finishing RB136.
He carried 2 times for 11 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.
That came to 0.1 carries a game at 6 yards a carry.
He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jacob Saylors was available for 13 games more.
Head to head
Jacob Saylors had 2 more carries than Jordan James, 2 to 0.
This season Jordan James holds the bigger snap share, 10 percent against 3 percent.
This season Jordan James holds the bigger share of the carries, 10 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Jordan James is off in Week 8 and Jacob Saylors in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jacob Saylors is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
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