Should I start John Metchie III or Jaylen Wright in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on John Metchie III, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

John Metchie III's market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, John Metchie III has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 3 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

His 4 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 John Metchie III played 16 games and scored 71.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR87.

He caught 33 of 48 targets for 274 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 43 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

John Metchie III was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Wright scored 4.8 PPR points a game and John Metchie III 4.5, 0.3 a game between them.

John Metchie III finished WR87 and Jaylen Wright RB70, which are two different ladders.

John Metchie III is a wide receiver and Jaylen Wright a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

John Metchie III is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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