Should I start Jaylen Wright or Jeremiyah Love in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 5:31 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 25, 4:13 PM ET: Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Quadriceps) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 23, 2:46 PM ET: Cards rookie RB Jeremiyah Love to miss second straight game with ankle injury (ESPN)
Oct 23, 2:13 PM ET: Jeremiyah Love: Questionable to Out (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Jeremiyah Love: 54 percent of the snaps and 66 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jaylen Wright's 17 percent of the snaps and 19 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 Jaylen Wright 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), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable. Jeremiyah Love is listed questionable.

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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.

Jaylen Wright

RB27 · MIA · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank: 79

Jeremiyah Love

RB29 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-2

Overall rank: 86

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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 Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

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

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 8 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 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.

Head to head

This season Jeremiyah Love holds the bigger snap share, 50 percent against 13 percent.

This season Jeremiyah Love holds the bigger share of the carries, 56 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Jeremiyah Love is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as out on the injury report.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jaylen Wright 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), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable. Jeremiyah Love is listed questionable.
Should I drop Jeremiyah Love for Jaylen Wright?
No. Keep Jeremiyah Love: he projects 95 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 9 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed questionable. Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.