Should I start Josh Jacobs or Tee Higgins in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Josh Jacobs's market-based projection is 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 200 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 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 18th 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, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 78 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 50 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 148 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 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Tee Higgins 14.1, 1.7 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 and Tee Higgins WR15, which are two different ladders.

Josh Jacobs is a running back and Tee Higgins a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

0.0 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.