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Should I start Jeremy McNichols or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 4:26 PM ET.

Week 8 verdict

Start

RB · WAS · vs PHI

Market projects
6.7
fantasy pts
PHI D vs RB
21.2
16th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Limited
30 of 100 at RB
Snap share
18%
Through Week 6
Target share
0%
Through Week 6
Sit

RB · GB · vs CAR

Market projects
5.2
fantasy pts
CAR D vs RB
28.7
2nd most to RBs (2026)
Upside
Rising
76 of 100 at RB
Snap share
38%
Through Week 7
Target share
6%
Through Week 7
Start McNichols or Lloyd? The full Week 8 breakdown

Start Jeremy McNichols over MarShawn Lloyd in Week 8: 6.7 to 5.2 projected PPR points.

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

RB25 · WAS · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 1-16

Overall rank
64

RB28 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 4-3

Market-based projection
5.3 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 Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 6.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

MarShawn Lloyd's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 18 percent of WAS snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 38 percent of GB snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 8 times for 10 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.

He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.

That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season MarShawn Lloyd holds the bigger snap share, 38 percent against 18 percent.

This season MarShawn Lloyd holds the bigger share of the carries, 39 percent against 31 percent.

Byes and availability

MarShawn Lloyd is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jeremy McNichols.

What would change the answer

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

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