Travis Etienne Jr. or Josh Jacobs: who should I start in Week 5?
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 Oct 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, 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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RB54 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 199
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
RB56 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 8-7
- Overall rank
- 206
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 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 market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Etienne Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 199th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Jacobs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 206th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Josh Jacobs, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 3
Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Travis Etienne Jr. in the last completed season.
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.
Byes and availability
Travis Etienne Jr. is off in Week 8 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.
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