Jaylen Wright or Tyjae Spears: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Wright: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyjae Spears: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Jaylen Wright at 5.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Tyjae Spears at 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 142nd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 12 percent of MIA snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

In Week 1 against LV he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against PHI he carried 7 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 29 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 3 times for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 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 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5.5 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3.5 catches a game.

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

Tyjae Spears was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 3.8 a game between them.

Jaylen Wright finished RB70 that year and Tyjae Spears RB44.

Tyjae Spears had 2 more carries than Jaylen Wright, 72 to 70.

Tyjae Spears had 40 more catches than Jaylen Wright, 45 to 5.

This season Tyjae Spears holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 12 percent.

This season Tyjae Spears holds the bigger share of the carries, 17 percent against 12 percent.

What would change the answer

Jaylen Wright is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.