Should I start Josh Jacobs or Tetairoa McMillan in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tetairoa McMillan, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Josh Jacobs's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tetairoa McMillan is 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 62 percent of GB snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 67 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 5 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.8 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.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 21 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 13 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 8, Tetairoa McMillan has been on the field for 83 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 3 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 65 targets have averaged 10.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 6 of 9 targets for 86 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 6 of 11 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

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 Tetairoa McMillan played 17 games and scored 211.4 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing WR16.

He caught 70 of 122 targets for 1014 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 15 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tetairoa McMillan was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Tetairoa McMillan 12.4, 3.4 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 and Tetairoa McMillan WR16, which are two different ladders.

Josh Jacobs is a running back and Tetairoa McMillan 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 Tetairoa McMillan in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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