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Should I start Jacob Saylors or Tyjae Spears in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 10:06 AM ET.

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  • : Jacob Saylors: Listed Questionable (Neck) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Tyjae Spears: Questionable to Out (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Tyjae Spears: 39 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the carries over their last 3 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.

Should I drop Jacob Saylors for Tyjae Spears?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyjae Spears projects 46 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (5.7 a game over 8 games), Jacob Saylors 2 (0.2 a game over 9 games). Jacob Saylors is listed questionable. Tyjae Spears is listed out.

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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.

Jacob Saylors

RB63 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-7

Overall rank
179

Tyjae Spears

RB65 · TEN · on bye this week

2026 vs carries line 1-5

Overall rank
229

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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 Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyjae Spears, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

No season market is posted for Tyjae Spears, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 6, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 2.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacob Saylors was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Jacob Saylors 0.1, 8.5 a game between them.

Jacob Saylors finished RB136 that year and Tyjae Spears RB44.

Tyjae Spears had 70 more carries than Jacob Saylors, 72 to 2.

Tyjae Spears had 45 more catches than Jacob Saylors, 45 to 0.

This season Tyjae Spears holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 3 percent.

This season Tyjae Spears holds the bigger share of the carries, 14 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Jacob Saylors is off in Week 6 and Tyjae Spears in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jacob Saylors is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Tyjae Spears is listed as out on the injury report.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Jacob Saylors for Tyjae Spears?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyjae Spears projects 46 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (5.7 a game over 8 games), Jacob Saylors 2 (0.2 a game over 9 games). Jacob Saylors is listed questionable. Tyjae Spears is listed out.

  • Should I drop Tyjae Spears for Jacob Saylors?

    No. Keep Tyjae Spears: he projects 46 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (5.7 a game over 8 games), Jacob Saylors 2 (0.2 a game over 9 games). Tyjae Spears is listed out. Jacob Saylors is listed questionable.

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