Should I start Justin Jefferson or Ollie Gordon II in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Justin Jefferson's market-based projection is 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 36th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Ollie Gordon II's market-based projection is 13.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 50th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justin Jefferson, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 4; 2QB: ADP 15.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Justin Jefferson has been on the field for 80 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 40 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against NO he carried 1 time for -11 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 79 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against IND he caught 4 of 7 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DET he caught 5 of 9 targets for 33 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 5 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 25 times for 103 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against NE he carried 19 times for 69 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Justin Jefferson played 17 games and scored 201.5 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR21.

He caught 84 of 141 targets for 1048 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 8.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Jefferson scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 8.7 a game between them.

Justin Jefferson finished WR21 and Ollie Gordon II RB68, which are two different ladders.

Justin Jefferson is a wide receiver and Ollie Gordon II a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

1.5 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.