Should I start Josh Jacobs or Ollie Gordon II in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 12.5 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.

Ollie Gordon II's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 81st highest figure of the 210 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, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 48 percent of MIA snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 5 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 18 times for 88 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 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ollie Gordon II was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 12.6 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 that year and Ollie Gordon II RB68.

Josh Jacobs had 164 more carries than Ollie Gordon II, 234 to 70.

Josh Jacobs had 29 more catches than Ollie Gordon II, 36 to 7.

Byes and availability

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

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.