Should I start Jeremiyah Love or Kirk Cousins in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremiyah Love, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 29.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremiyah Love is 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 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 16.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 3 market sources. That is 45 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he carried 21 times for 90 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 14 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 12 times for 22 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

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

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.

Side by side

Jeremiyah Love 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

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

Jeremiyah Love is listed as out on the injury report.