Start Jaylen Warren or Jadarian Price? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Jaylen Warren over Jadarian Price
Right: 10.3 to 7.8
- ATL D vs RB
- 14.4
- 9th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 37%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 16%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 10.3
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 6.4
- fantasy pts
- NE D vs RB
- 15.0
- 10th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 48%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 8%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 7.8
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Jaylen Warren over Jadarian Price in Week 1.
Jadarian Price is priced by the books at 6.4 projected points and Jaylen Warren is not priced at all, so we are leaning on where drafters take them. Drafters take Jaylen Warren at ADP 63 and Jadarian Price at 64.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for Jaylen Warren in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 6.4 fantasy points for Jadarian Price, with 33 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
Jaylen Warren and PIT host ATL.
ATL allowed 14.4 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 9th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 61 yards and no touchdowns against ATL and caught passes for 33 more yards.
Jadarian Price and SEA host NE on Wednesday at 8:20 PM ET.
NE allowed 15.0 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 10th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 84 yards and no touchdowns against NE and caught passes for 26 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Jadarian Price has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Jaylen Warren was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Jadarian Price was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Jaylen Warren played 16 games for PIT and scored 217.1 PPR points, 13.6 a game, finishing RB17.
He ran 211 times for 958 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 333 yards.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Jaylen Warren, Week 18 of 2025 against BAL: 14 carries for 66 yards, 5 targets and 5 catches for 33 yards, 14.9 PPR points.
Jaylen Warren, Week 17 of 2025 against CLE: 21 of 66 snaps, 12 carries for 64 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 6.4 PPR points.
Jaylen Warren, Week 16 of 2025 against DET: 36 of 74 snaps, 14 carries for 143 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 8 yards, 2 touchdowns, 29.1 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Jaylen Warren scored 10.3 PPR points and Jadarian Price scored 7.8.
The call was right: Jaylen Warren outscored Jadarian Price by 2.5.
Jaylen Warren, Week 1 against ATL: 25 of 67 snaps, 10 carries for 46 yards, 6 targets and 5 catches for 27 yards, 10.3 PPR points.
Jaylen Warren finished as the week's RB25 in PPR scoring.
Jadarian Price finished 1.4 points above the 6.4 the props implied.
Jadarian Price, Week 1 against NE: 24 of 50 snaps, 10 carries for 52 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 6 yards, 7.8 PPR points.
Jadarian Price finished as the week's RB37 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB25 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rush yds line 5-11
- Overall rank
- 53
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
RB31 · SEA · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 66
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board13
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 4 and tier 5
- Board size244 draftable players
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