Should I start Jahmyr Gibbs or Mike Gesicki in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahmyr Gibbs, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jahmyr Gibbs is 8.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 79 percent of DET snaps, taken 80 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 51 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 14 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 44 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against ARI he carried 25 times for 151 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 56 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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.

Through Week 8, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 76 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 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jahmyr Gibbs was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 16.1 a game between them.

Jahmyr Gibbs finished RB3 and Mike Gesicki TE41, which are two different ladders.

Jahmyr Gibbs is a running back and Mike Gesicki a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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