Should I start Josh Jacobs or Justin Jefferson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justin Jefferson, and the board ranks him 29th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 4; 2QB: ADP 15.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 13.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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.

Justin Jefferson's market-based projection is 15.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.

Through Week 5, Justin Jefferson has been on the field for 74 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 10 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against CHI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against TB he caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he carried 1 time for -11 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 79 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Justin Jefferson played 17 games and scored 201.5 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR21.

He caught 84 of 141 targets for 1048 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 8.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Justin Jefferson was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Justin Jefferson 11.9, 4.0 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 and Justin Jefferson WR21, which are two different ladders.

Josh Jacobs is a running back and Justin Jefferson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 and Justin Jefferson in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Justin Jefferson is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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