Should I start Jaylen Wright or Kirk Cousins in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 8:21 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 21, 5:13 PM ET: Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Kirk Cousins: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets 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 Kirk Cousins?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 128 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (14.2 a game over 9 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright 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: 82

Kirk Cousins

QB11 · LV · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 6-1

Overall rank: 83

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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 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 16.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 market sources. That is 45 percent of what a quarterback'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, 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 7, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 269 times and thrown 8.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 269 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 6 against BUF he completed 23 of 41 passes for 313 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 7 against LAR he completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

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 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 10 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 6.0 a game between them.

Jaylen Wright finished RB70 and Kirk Cousins QB35, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Wright is a running back and Kirk Cousins a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jaylen Wright for Kirk Cousins?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 128 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (14.2 a game over 9 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.
Should I drop Kirk Cousins for Jaylen Wright?
No. Keep Kirk Cousins: he projects 128 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (14.2 a game over 9 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games). Jaylen Wright is listed questionable.

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