Should I start Jordan James or Jaylen Warren in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jaylen Warren: 66 percent of the snaps and 60 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jordan James's 10 percent of the snaps and 10 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.
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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.
RB61 · SF · bye 8
- Overall rank
- 185
RB63 · PIT · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 15.2 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 226
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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 Jordan James, and the board ranks him 185th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Warren, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jordan James is 0.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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.
No season market is posted for Jaylen Warren, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Jordan James has been on the field for 10 percent of SF snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 12 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.
His 1 target have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against MIA he carried 4 times for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against ATL he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Jaylen Warren has been on the field for 72 percent of PIT snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 36 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against TB he carried 14 times for 50 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NO he carried 18 times for 101 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CLE he carried 17 times for 143 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jordan James played 3 games.
He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.
He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jaylen Warren played 16 games and scored 217.1 PPR points, 13.6 a game, finishing RB17.
He carried 211 times for 958 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 333 more yards.
That came to 13.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jaylen Warren was available for 13 games more.
Head to head
Jaylen Warren had 211 more carries than Jordan James, 211 to 0.
Jaylen Warren had 40 more catches than Jordan James, 40 to 0.
This season Jaylen Warren holds the bigger snap share, 72 percent against 10 percent.
This season Jaylen Warren holds the bigger share of the carries, 65 percent against 10 percent.
Byes and availability
Jordan James is off in Week 8 and Jaylen Warren in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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