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Should I start Jahmyr Gibbs or Josh Jacobs in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET.

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Start Jahmyr Gibbs: 79 percent of the snaps and 76 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Josh Jacobs's 62 percent of the snaps and 71 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 Josh Jacobs for Jahmyr Gibbs?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jahmyr Gibbs projects 200 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (25.0 a game over 8 games), Josh Jacobs 102 (14.5 a game over 7 games). Josh Jacobs is listed out.

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

RB1 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 5-3

Market-based projection
24.8 pts a game

RB3 · GB · bye 11

2025 vs rush yds line 8-7

Market-based projection
14.6 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
17

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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 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 Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 17th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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 175 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 79 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, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 62 percent of GB snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 5 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 21 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 13 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 4 times for 5 yards and did not score.

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 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.

He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jahmyr Gibbs was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and Josh Jacobs 15.8, 5.8 a game between them.

Jahmyr Gibbs finished RB3 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.

Jahmyr Gibbs had 9 more carries than Josh Jacobs, 243 to 234.

Jahmyr Gibbs had 41 more catches than Josh Jacobs, 77 to 36.

This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 62 percent.

This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger share of the carries, 79 percent against 47 percent.

Byes and availability

Jahmyr Gibbs is off in Week 6 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Josh Jacobs is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Josh Jacobs has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Josh Jacobs for Jahmyr Gibbs?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Jahmyr Gibbs projects 200 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (25.0 a game over 8 games), Josh Jacobs 102 (14.5 a game over 7 games). Josh Jacobs is listed out.

  • Should I drop Jahmyr Gibbs for Josh Jacobs?

    No. Keep Jahmyr Gibbs: he projects 200 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (25.0 a game over 8 games), Josh Jacobs 102 (14.5 a game over 7 games). Josh Jacobs is listed out.

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