Should I start Jahan Dotson or Ray Davis in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahan Dotson, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ray Davis, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 127th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 1.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 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 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.

Through Week 6, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 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 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

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

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Ray Davis scored 3.8 PPR points a game and Jahan Dotson 3.0, 0.8 a game between them.

Jahan Dotson finished WR109 and Ray Davis RB61, which are two different ladders.

Jahan Dotson is a wide receiver and Ray Davis a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jahan Dotson is off in Week 11 and Ray Davis in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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