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Should I start Julius Chestnut or Jacob Saylors in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 6:16 PM ET.

Start Jacob Saylors: he has been on the field this season, 3 percent of the snaps, and Julius Chestnut 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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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.

Julius Chestnut

RB56 · TEN · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Overall rank
164

Jacob Saylors

RB57 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
172

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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 Julius Chestnut, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Julius Chestnut is 0.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 60 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 12 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.

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

This season through Week 3

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Julius Chestnut this season.

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 Julius Chestnut played 17 games and scored 4.0 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB125.

He carried 11 times for 40 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.6 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 4 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.

Julius Chestnut was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Julius Chestnut scored 0.2 PPR points a game and Jacob Saylors 0.1, 0.2 a game between them.

Julius Chestnut finished RB125 that year and Jacob Saylors RB136.

Julius Chestnut had 9 more carries than Jacob Saylors, 11 to 2.

Byes and availability

Jacob Saylors is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Julius Chestnut.

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

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