Should I start Quinshon Judkins or Jake Ferguson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Quinshon Judkins is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 60 percent of CLE snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 17 times for 53 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 44 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 68 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

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

Jake Ferguson was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Jake Ferguson 11.1, 0.3 a game between them.

Quinshon Judkins finished RB26 and Jake Ferguson TE5, which are two different ladders.

Quinshon Judkins is a running back and Jake Ferguson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Quinshon Judkins is off in Week 11 and Jake Ferguson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

Quinshon Judkins is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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