Should I start Jared Goff or Jahan Dotson in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 12:31 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Jared Goff: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jahan Dotson's 68 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets. 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 Jahan Dotson for Jared Goff?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jared Goff projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Jahan Dotson 47 (5.2 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Jared Goff

QB5 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Overall rank: 57

Jahan Dotson

WR30 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection: 5.1 pts a game

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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 Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahan Dotson, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jared Goff is 18.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 75th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 240 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 33 of 240 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against CAR he completed 32 of 52 passes for 412 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against ARI he completed 19 of 30 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

In Week 7 against GB he completed 22 of 32 passes for 303 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

Through Week 7, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 67 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 16.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.

He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.

He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Jahan Dotson 3.0, 15.0 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 and Jahan Dotson WR109, which are two different ladders.

Jared Goff is a quarterback and Jahan Dotson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Jahan Dotson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Jared Goff has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jahan Dotson for Jared Goff?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jared Goff projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Jahan Dotson 47 (5.2 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Jared Goff for Jahan Dotson?
No. Keep Jared Goff: he projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Jahan Dotson 47 (5.2 a game over 9 games).