Start Jeremy McNichols or Pierre Strong Jr.? Week 8
Updated Oct 28, 9:01 PM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 9 answer posts Tuesday.
Start Jeremy McNichols over Pierre Strong Jr.
- Market projects
- 6.7
- fantasy pts
- PHI D vs RB
- 21.2
- 16th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 18%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 0%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 5.8
- recent weeks avg
- CAR D vs RB
- 28.7
- 2nd most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 12%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 0%
- Through Week 7
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Our Week 8 call
Start Jeremy McNichols over Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 8.
Market-based projections have Jeremy McNichols at 6.7 points and Pierre Strong Jr. at 5.8, a gap of 0.9. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Jeremy McNichols'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. No player market is posted for Pierre Strong Jr. this week yet, so his 5.8 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 6 and 7 (7.3 and 4.3); the call is rebuilt when his market posts. Market coverage on Jeremy McNichols is 70 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 6.7 fantasy points for Jeremy McNichols, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 27 rushing yards and 0.3 touchdowns (8 and 7 market sources).
No Week 8 player market is posted for Pierre Strong Jr. yet. His market-based projections were 7.3 and 4.3 points in Weeks 6 and 7, an average of 5.8, which stands in until his Week 8 market posts.
The market-based projection for Pierre Strong Jr. is 0.1 touchdowns (13 market sources).
That puts Jeremy McNichols 0.9 points ahead of Pierre Strong Jr. on these projections.
Week 8 matchups
Jeremy McNichols and WAS host PHI on Sunday at 8:20 PM ET.
PHI allowed 21.2 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 7 games, the 16th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 117 yards and 0.7 touchdowns a game against PHI and caught passes for 20 more yards.
Pierre Strong Jr. and GB host CAR on Thursday at 8:15 PM ET.
CAR allowed 28.7 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 2nd most in the league.
Running backs ran for 127 yards and 1-2 touchdowns a game against CAR and caught passes for 29 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Pierre Strong Jr. has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Jeremy McNichols is not on the injury report.
Pierre Strong Jr. is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 8
Through Week 6, Jeremy McNichols played 18 percent of WAS snaps, took 31 percent of the carries, drew 0 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
Jeremy McNichols, Week 6 against SF: 12 of 67 snaps, 5 carries for 13 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Through Week 7, Pierre Strong Jr. played 12 percent of GB snaps, took 0 percent of the carries, drew 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
Pierre Strong Jr., Week 7 against DET: 8 of 67 snaps, 0 carries for 0 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Jeremy McNichols played 17 games for WAS and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He ran 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 yards.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Jeremy McNichols, Week 18 of 2025 against PHI: 1 carry for 3 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 8 yards, 2.1 PPR points.
Jeremy McNichols, Week 17 of 2025 against DAL: 18 of 44 snaps, 1 carry for -2 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 12 yards, 4.0 PPR points.
Their other Week 8 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 8, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
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Week 8 on the board
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- Is Pierre Strong Jr. playing Week 8?
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