Should I start Jaylen Wright or Julius Chestnut in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Julius Chestnut, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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 Julius Chestnut is 0.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 60 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 5

Through Week 5, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 2 times for 11 yards and did not score.

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Julius Chestnut this season.

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.

In 2025 Julius Chestnut played 17 games and scored 4.0 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB125.

He carried 11 times for 40 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.6 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Julius Chestnut was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaylen Wright scored 4.8 PPR points a game and Julius Chestnut 0.2, 4.6 a game between them.

Jaylen Wright finished RB70 that year and Julius Chestnut RB125.

Jaylen Wright had 59 more carries than Julius Chestnut, 70 to 11.

Jaylen Wright had 5 more catches than Julius Chestnut, 5 to 0.

Byes and availability

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.