Should I start Josh Allen or Jakobi Meyers in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Josh Allen's market-based projection is 23.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 10.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 3 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room has them

Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.

His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.

He appears in 16 recorded drafts across the draft formats we track.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Josh Allen was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Jakobi Meyers 11.0, 11.0 a game between them.

Josh Allen finished QB1 and Jakobi Meyers WR32, which are two different ladders.

Josh Allen is a quarterback and Jakobi Meyers a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

13.3 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.