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Should I start Jauan Jennings or Jeremiyah Love in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 10:06 PM ET.

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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 Jauan Jennings: 75 percent of the snaps and 6 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 Jauan Jennings for Jeremiyah Love?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jeremiyah Love projects 95 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 9 games), Jauan Jennings 24 (2.4 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR34 · MIN · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Market-based projection
3.6 pts a game

RB28 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-2

Overall rank
82

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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 Jauan Jennings, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremiyah Love, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 29.

The market-based projections

Jauan Jennings's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Jauan Jennings has been on the field for 70 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 34 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 Jauan Jennings played 15 games and scored 173.3 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing WR33.

He caught 55 of 90 targets for 643 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 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

Jauan Jennings 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

Jauan Jennings is off in Week 6 and Jeremiyah Love in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Jauan Jennings for Jeremiyah Love?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Jeremiyah Love projects 95 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 9 games), Jauan Jennings 24 (2.4 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

  • Should I drop Jeremiyah Love for Jauan Jennings?

    No. Keep Jeremiyah Love: he projects 95 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 9 games), Jauan Jennings 24 (2.4 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

Both players in full

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