Should I start Josh Jacobs or Matthew Golden in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Josh Jacobs's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Matthew Golden's market-based projection is 14.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 12th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Golden, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 52 percent of GB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 13 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.

His 7 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 84 percent of GB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 26 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 69 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against CHI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 123 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 6 of 13 targets for 104 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 6 of 12 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

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 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.

He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Jacobs was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 10.8 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 and Matthew Golden WR89, which are two different ladders.

Josh Jacobs is a running back and Matthew Golden 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.

Matthew Golden is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.