Should I start Ray Davis or Jacob Saylors in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ray Davis, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 201st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 0.5 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.

The market-based projection for Jacob Saylors is 0.5 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 5 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 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BAL he carried 6 times for 30 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 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.

He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.

That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 11 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.

Ray Davis was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Ray Davis scored 3.8 PPR points a game and Jacob Saylors 0.1, 3.7 a game between them.

Ray Davis finished RB61 that year and Jacob Saylors RB136.

Ray Davis had 56 more carries than Jacob Saylors, 58 to 2.

Ray Davis had 10 more catches than Jacob Saylors, 10 to 0.

This season Ray Davis holds the bigger snap share, 11 percent against 3 percent.

This season Ray Davis holds the bigger share of the carries, 5 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Ray Davis is off in Week 7 and Jacob Saylors in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jacob Saylors is listed as questionable on the injury report.