Should I start Trey McBride or Josh Jacobs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trey McBride, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Trey McBride's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 13.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Trey McBride has been on the field for 91 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 4 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 65 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he caught 7 of 12 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 9 of 10 targets for 66 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 7 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Trey McBride played 17 games and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.

He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets.

That came to 9.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 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.

Trey McBride was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Trey McBride scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Josh Jacobs 15.8, 2.8 a game between them.

Trey McBride finished TE1 and Josh Jacobs RB13, which are two different ladders.

Trey McBride is a tight end and Josh Jacobs a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Trey McBride is off in Week 14 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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