Should I start Mike Gesicki or Jeremiyah Love in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremiyah Love, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jeremiyah Love is 3.3 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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

Side by side

Mike Gesicki is a tight end and Jeremiyah Love a running back, 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. No bye is listed for Mike Gesicki.

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.