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Should I start Jordan Love or Puka Nacua in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 12:36 PM ET.

Start Jordan Love: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Puka Nacua's 88 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the targets. 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 Jordan Love for Puka Nacua?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Puka Nacua projects 194 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (19.4 a game over 10 games), Jordan Love 160 (16.0 a game over 10 games).

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

QB6 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Market-based projection
17.4 pts a game

WR26 · LAR · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-2

Market-based projection
22.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
56

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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 Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Puka Nacua, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 6.

The market-based projections

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 17.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 182 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Puka Nacua is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jordan Love has been on the field for 99 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 240 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 240 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 4 against TB he completed 22 of 30 passes for 197 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against CHI he completed 25 of 31 passes for 367 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he completed 23 of 41 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

Through Week 6, Puka Nacua has been on the field for 85 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 32 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 3 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 52 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 9 of 12 targets for 125 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 17 of 24 targets for 138 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.

He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Puka Nacua played 16 games and scored 375.0 PPR points, 23.4 a game, finishing WR1.

He caught 129 of 166 targets for 1715 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 10.4 targets a game, a 78 percent catch rate and 13.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Puka Nacua was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Puka Nacua scored 23.4 PPR points a game and Jordan Love 16.1, 7.4 a game between them.

Jordan Love finished QB15 and Puka Nacua WR1, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Love is a quarterback and Puka Nacua a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Puka Nacua 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 Jordan Love for Puka Nacua?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Puka Nacua projects 194 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (19.4 a game over 10 games), Jordan Love 160 (16.0 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Puka Nacua for Jordan Love?

    No. Keep Puka Nacua: he projects 194 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (19.4 a game over 10 games), Jordan Love 160 (16.0 a game over 10 games).

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