Jahmyr Gibbs or Josh Jacobs: who should I start?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM ET
Josh Jacobs is not in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB50 · DET · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 7-10
- Overall rank
- 186
- Draft pick
- ADP 1
- Tier
- 13
RB53 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 8-7
- Overall rank
- 205
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room has them
Jahmyr Gibbs goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 1.4, and the board has him RB50 in tier 10.
His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 3, a standard deviation of 0.6 picks.
He appears in 800 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.
Over 14 days his average pick has not moved a full pick either way.
By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Jacobs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 205th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 62.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jahmyr Gibbs, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Josh Jacobs, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 74 percent of DET snaps, taken 88 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 11 third down targets, had 5 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 3 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against NO he carried 29 times for 156 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.
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.
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 na on the injury report.
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