Should I start Jeremiyah Love or Michael Penix Jr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 9:46 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Michael Penix Jr.: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremiyah Love's 54 percent of the snaps and 66 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 Jeremiyah Love for Michael Penix Jr.?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Michael Penix Jr. projects 150 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.0 a game over 10 games), Jeremiyah Love 107 (10.7 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Jeremiyah Love

RB38 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-2

Market-based projection: 10.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 112

Michael Penix Jr.

QB20 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 2-2

Market-based projection: 15.0 pts a game

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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 Jeremiyah Love, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Penix Jr., and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremiyah Love is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Michael Penix Jr.'s market-based projection is 15.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based 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 6, Michael Penix Jr. has been on the field for 99 percent of ATL snaps, dropped back 122 times and thrown 7.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 122 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 4 against NO he completed 15 of 20 passes for 223 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against BAL he completed 19 of 32 passes for 240 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

In Week 6 against CHI he completed 19 of 33 passes for 225 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. played 9 games and scored 123.3 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB33.

He threw for 1982 yards on 276 attempts with 9 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 70 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 30.7 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Jeremiyah Love is a running back and Michael Penix Jr. 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 Michael Penix Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jeremiyah Love has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jeremiyah Love for Michael Penix Jr.?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Michael Penix Jr. projects 150 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.0 a game over 10 games), Jeremiyah Love 107 (10.7 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed questionable.
Should I drop Michael Penix Jr. for Jeremiyah Love?
No. Keep Michael Penix Jr.: he projects 150 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.0 a game over 10 games), Jeremiyah Love 107 (10.7 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed questionable.