Should I start Jeremiyah Love or Rachaad White in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 9:11 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 23, 2:46 PM ET: Cards rookie RB Jeremiyah Love to miss second straight game with ankle injury (ESPN)
Oct 23, 2:13 PM ET: Jeremiyah Love: Questionable to Out (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 6:13 PM ET: Jeremiyah Love: Doubtful to Questionable (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Rachaad White: 57 percent of the snaps and 29 percent of the carries 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 Rachaad White for Jeremiyah Love?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jeremiyah Love projects 96 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.7 a game over 9 games), Rachaad White 30 (3.0 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Jeremiyah Love

RB23 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-2

Overall rank: 61

Rachaad White

RB24 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 4-1

Overall rank: 62

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The gap

Board size292 draftable players

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 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rachaad White, and the board ranks him 62nd 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 Rachaad White 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.

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, Rachaad White has been on the field for 53 percent of WAS snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 0.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against SEA he carried 8 times for 35 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYG he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 7 times for 27 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Rachaad White played 17 games and scored 143.0 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB32.

He carried 132 times for 572 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 218 more yards.

That came to 7.8 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Rachaad White holds the bigger snap share, 53 percent against 50 percent.

This season Jeremiyah Love holds the bigger share of the carries, 56 percent against 26 percent.

Byes and availability

Jeremiyah Love is off in Week 14 and Rachaad White in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as out on the injury report.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Rachaad White for Jeremiyah Love?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jeremiyah Love projects 96 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.7 a game over 9 games), Rachaad White 30 (3.0 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.
Should I drop Jeremiyah Love for Rachaad White?
No. Keep Jeremiyah Love: he projects 96 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (10.7 a game over 9 games), Rachaad White 30 (3.0 a game over 10 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.