Start Aaron Jones Sr. or Bam Knight? Week 7
Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 8 answer posts Tuesday.
Start Aaron Jones Sr. over Bam Knight
- Market projects
- 11.1
- fantasy pts
- IND D vs RB
- 23.9
- 6th most to RBs (2026)
- Market projects
- 9.4
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 7 call
Start Aaron Jones Sr. over Bam Knight in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Aaron Jones Sr. at 11.1 points and Bam Knight at 9.4, a gap of 1.7. Bam Knight's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 11.1 fantasy points for Aaron Jones Sr., with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Aaron Jones Sr. is 40 rushing yards, 15 receiving yards, 2-3 receptions and 0-1 touchdowns (12, 12, 13 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 9.4 fantasy points for Bam Knight, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Bam Knight is 42 rushing yards and 0.3 touchdowns (11 and 13 market sources).
That puts Aaron Jones Sr. 1.7 points ahead of Bam Knight on the market projections.
Week 7 matchups
Aaron Jones Sr. and MIN host IND on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
IND allowed 23.9 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 6th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 96 yards and 0.8 touchdowns a game against IND and caught passes for 45 more yards.
Injury status
Aaron Jones Sr. is not on the injury report.
Bam Knight is not on the injury report.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Aaron Jones Sr. played 12 games for MIN and scored 118.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing RB41.
He ran 132 times for 548 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 28 of 41 targets for 199 yards.
He was on the field for 55 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Aaron Jones Sr., Week 17 of 2025 against DET: 35 of 54 snaps, 18 carries for 53 yards, 4 targets and 3 catches for 10 yards, 1 touchdown, 15.3 PPR points.
Aaron Jones Sr., Week 16 of 2025 against NYG: 39 of 61 snaps, 21 carries for 85 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 8 yards, 11.3 PPR points.
Aaron Jones Sr., Week 15 of 2025 against DAL: 32 of 55 snaps, 12 carries for 34 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 31 yards, 9.5 PPR points.
Their other Week 7 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 7, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.