Should I start Josh Jacobs or Tyler Allgeier in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Allgeier, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Josh Jacobs's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Allgeier is 11.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

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

This season through Week 6

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

Through Week 6, Tyler Allgeier has been on the field for 51 percent of ARI snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have come 2.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 8 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAR he carried 18 times for 38 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 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 Tyler Allgeier played 17 games and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.

He carried 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 more yards.

That came to 8.4 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tyler Allgeier was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Tyler Allgeier 7.2, 8.6 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 that year and Tyler Allgeier RB39.

Josh Jacobs had 91 more carries than Tyler Allgeier, 234 to 143.

Josh Jacobs had 22 more catches than Tyler Allgeier, 36 to 14.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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