Jeremiyah Love or Josh Downs: who should I start?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Jeremiyah Love at 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 82nd highest figure of the 179 players the books price.

The player markets price Josh Downs at 10.1 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 18 books. That is the 84th highest figure of the 179 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jeremiyah Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 47.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Downs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 125.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 43 percent of ARI snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 1, Josh Downs has been on the field for 89 percent of IND snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 5 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 9.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against BAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Josh Downs played 16 games and scored 136.4 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing WR44.

He caught 58 of 88 targets for 566 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.5 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Jeremiyah Love is a running back and Josh Downs a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jeremiyah Love is off in Week 14 and Josh Downs in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.3 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.