Should I start Josh Jacobs or Saquon Barkley in Week 8?

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 Saquon Barkley, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

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.

The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

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, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 33 percent of PHI snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DAL he carried 7 times for 62 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 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 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17-18 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Saquon Barkley was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Saquon Barkley 14.5, 1.3 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 that year and Saquon Barkley RB14.

Saquon Barkley had 46 more carries than Josh Jacobs, 280 to 234.

Saquon Barkley had 1 more catches than Josh Jacobs, 37 to 36.

This season Josh Jacobs holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 33 percent.

This season Josh Jacobs holds the bigger share of the carries, 58 percent against 34 percent.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 and Saquon Barkley in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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