Should I start Jadarian Price or James Cook III in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jadarian Price, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on James Cook III, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

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

The market-based projection for James Cook III is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

This season so far

Through Week 3, Jadarian Price has been on the field for 36 percent of SEA snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against NE he carried 10 times for 52 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against ARI he carried 13 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against WAS he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, James Cook III has taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 35 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 2.7 air yards.

In Week 8 against BAL he carried 21 times for 80 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

Jadarian Price is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 James Cook III played 17 games and scored 302.2 PPR points, 17.8 a game, finishing RB6.

He carried 309 times for 1621 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 291 more yards.

That came to 18.2 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season James Cook III holds the bigger share of the carries, 54 percent against 35 percent.

Byes and availability

Jadarian Price is off in Week 11 and James Cook III in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

James Cook III is listed as questionable on the injury report.