Should I start Josh Jacobs or Javonte Williams in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 12th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Josh Jacobs's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 7.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 52 percent of GB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 13 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.

His 7 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 75 percent of DAL snaps, taken 69 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 17 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against TB he carried 12 times for 45 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against GB he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PHI he carried 25 times for 155 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.

He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Javonte Williams played 16 games and scored 242.8 PPR points, 15.2 a game, finishing RB12.

He carried 252 times for 1201 yards and 11 touchdowns, and caught 35 of 51 targets for 137 more yards.

That came to 15.8 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Javonte Williams was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Javonte Williams 15.2, 0.6 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 that year and Javonte Williams RB12.

Javonte Williams had 18 more carries than Josh Jacobs, 252 to 234.

Josh Jacobs had 1 more catches than Javonte Williams, 36 to 35.

This season Javonte Williams holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 52 percent.

This season Javonte Williams holds the bigger share of the carries, 69 percent against 58 percent.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 and Javonte Williams in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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