Should I start Jauan Jennings or Kirk Cousins in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jauan Jennings, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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 99th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 16.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 2 market sources. That is 45 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

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 7, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 269 times and thrown 8.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 269 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 6 against BUF he completed 23 of 41 passes for 313 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 7 against LAR he completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

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.

In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jauan Jennings was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jauan Jennings scored 11.6 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 0.7 a game between them.

Jauan Jennings finished WR33 and Kirk Cousins QB35, which are two different ladders.

Jauan Jennings is a wide receiver and Kirk Cousins a quarterback, 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 Kirk Cousins in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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