Should I start Puka Nacua or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Puka Nacua, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 6.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Puka Nacua is 4.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

MarShawn Lloyd's market-based projection is 5.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Puka Nacua has been on the field for 85 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 32 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 62 targets have averaged 8.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 17 of 24 targets for 138 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 2 times for 10 yards, caught 8 of 10 targets for 68 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 38 percent of GB snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 8 times for 10 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Puka Nacua played 16 games and scored 375.0 PPR points, 23.4 a game, finishing WR1.

He caught 129 of 166 targets for 1715 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 10.4 targets a game, a 78 percent catch rate and 13.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Side by side

Puka Nacua is a wide receiver and MarShawn Lloyd 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 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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