Should I start Jahmyr Gibbs or James Cook III in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahmyr Gibbs, and the board ranks him 1st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.

Live drafts hold no current pick on James Cook III, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Jahmyr Gibbs's market-based projection is 24.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 1st highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for James Cook III is 5.9 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.

James Cook III's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 77 percent of DET snaps, taken 79 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 52 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 15 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 45 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against GB he carried 29 times for 116 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIN he carried 23 times for 153 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against MIA he carried 20 times for 74 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, James Cook III has been on the field for 54 percent of BUF snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 44 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 3 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 2.0 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.

In Week 9 against MIN he carried 31 times for 107 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs played 17 games and scored 366.9 PPR points, 21.6 a game, finishing RB3.

He carried 243 times for 1223 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 77 of 94 targets for 616 more yards.

That came to 14.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 4-5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and James Cook III 17.8, 3.8 a game between them.

Jahmyr Gibbs finished RB3 that year and James Cook III RB6.

James Cook III had 66 more carries than Jahmyr Gibbs, 309 to 243.

Jahmyr Gibbs had 44 more catches than James Cook III, 77 to 33.

This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 54 percent.

This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger share of the carries, 79 percent against 66 percent.

Byes and availability

Jahmyr Gibbs is off in Week 6 and James Cook III in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

James Cook III has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.