Should I start Rhamondre Stevenson or Josh Jacobs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rhamondre Stevenson, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rhamondre Stevenson's market-based projection is 12.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 61st highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Rhamondre Stevenson has been on the field for 63 percent of NE snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 3 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against BUF he carried 13 times for 47 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 13 times for 64 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 36 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rhamondre Stevenson played 14 games and scored 178.8 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing RB25.

He carried 130 times for 603 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 32 of 37 targets for 345 more yards.

That came to 9.3 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 60 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.

Josh Jacobs was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Rhamondre Stevenson 12.8, 3.0 a game between them.

Rhamondre Stevenson finished RB25 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.

Josh Jacobs had 104 more carries than Rhamondre Stevenson, 234 to 130.

Josh Jacobs had 4 more catches than Rhamondre Stevenson, 36 to 32.

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

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