Should I start Jakobi Meyers or Jeremiyah Love in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 9:11 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Cards rookie RB Jeremiyah Love to miss second straight game with ankle injury (ESPN)
- : Jeremiyah Love: Questionable to Out (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jeremiyah Love: Doubtful to Questionable (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Jakobi Meyers: 80 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremiyah Love's 54 percent of the snaps and 66 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 Jakobi Meyers for Jeremiyah Love?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jeremiyah Love projects 96 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.7 a game over 9 games), Jakobi Meyers 91 (9.1 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR26 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Overall rank
- 60
RB23 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs carries line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 61
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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 Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremiyah Love, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 29.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jakobi Meyers is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Jeremiyah Love is 3.9 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.
Jakobi Meyers's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 80 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.
In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 83 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against SF he carried 21 times for 90 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against NYG he carried 14 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -8 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DET he carried 12 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.
He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Jakobi Meyers is a wide receiver and Jeremiyah Love a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7 and Jeremiyah Love in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremiyah Love is listed as out on the injury report.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Jakobi Meyers for Jeremiyah Love?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jeremiyah Love projects 96 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.7 a game over 9 games), Jakobi Meyers 91 (9.1 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.
Should I drop Jeremiyah Love for Jakobi Meyers?
No. Keep Jeremiyah Love: he projects 96 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.7 a game over 9 games), Jakobi Meyers 91 (9.1 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.
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