Rico Dowdle 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 the books have not posted a whole price on either of them, 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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RB48 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rush yds line 6-11
- Books price
- 9.5 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 164
- 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
- Board size222 draftable players
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 Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 96.
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
The books have Rico Dowdle at 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 books. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Josh Jacobs, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.
He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.
That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 56 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.
Rico Dowdle was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Rico Dowdle 12.7, 3.1 a game between them.
Rico Dowdle finished RB18 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.
Rico Dowdle had 2 more carries than Josh Jacobs, 236 to 234.
Rico Dowdle had 3 more catches than Josh Jacobs, 39 to 36.
Byes and availability
Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Rico Dowdle is listed as out on the injury report.
Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.
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