Jordan Mason or Josh Jacobs: who should I start in Week 3?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 26, 2026 at 12:26 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB47 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 8-8
- Books price
- 2.7 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 163
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 15
RB50 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 8-7
- Overall rank
- 199
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
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Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Mason: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 112.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Jacobs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 199th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 77.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jordan Mason, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Josh Jacobs, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 45 percent of MIN snaps, taken 48 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.
In Week 1 against GB he carried 15 times for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jordan Mason played 16 games and scored 128.9 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing RB36.
He carried 159 times for 758 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 51 more yards.
That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 44 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.
He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.
That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jordan Mason was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Jordan Mason 8.1, 7.8 a game between them.
Jordan Mason finished RB36 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.
Josh Jacobs had 75 more carries than Jordan Mason, 234 to 159.
Josh Jacobs had 22 more catches than Jordan Mason, 36 to 14.
Byes and availability
Jordan Mason is off in Week 6 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jordan Mason is listed as ir on the injury report.
Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.
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