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Aaron Jones

Minnesota Vikings · Running backRB1

5′9″, 208 lb · age 31 · Texas-El Paso · 2017 draft, round 5

Week 5 stats

Sun Oct 11, at NO: Aaron Jones ran 25 times for 113 yards, caught 3 for 4, 1 touchdown on 87% of snaps.

Stats through week 5; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Through 5 games this season Aaron Jones is averaging 19.4 carries for 82 rushing yards and 2.4 catches on 73% of snaps, against 11.0 carries for 46 rushing yards and 2.3 catches over 12 games last season. For week 7 the model projects 15.0 PPR points, RB9 this week.

Week 7 projection

PPR points
15.0
RB9 this week
Rush attempts
17.2
Rushing yards
82
Receptions
3.0
0.6 above his 2025 average
Receiving yards
26
Anytime TD
31%
His snap share has grown from last season. The projection is lifted to reflect the larger role.

What a realistic week looks like

9%018%121%219%314%49%55%63%78910111213Receptions
The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 1 and 6 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.

Aaron Jones snap share, game by game

Snap shareTarget share
Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.

Game log

GameOppSnap shareTarget shareTgtRecRec ydsCarRush ydsTDWe said
26 wk7—————————3.0 projected
26 wk5NO87%10.3%3342511312.5 +0.5
26 wk4MIA73%24.2%8434209402.5 +1.5
26 wk3TB80%24.0%6534175801.7 +3.3
26 wk2CHI81%0.0%000231050—
26 wk1GB46%4.3%10012401—
25 wk17DET65%28.6%431018531—
25 wk16NYG64%13.0%32821850—
25 wk15DAL58%12.5%333112340—
25 wk14WAS45%4.3%10014760—
25 wk13SEA37%13.8%4422630—

“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.

How often he has actually done it

Rates over his last 14 games. A projection says what to expect on average; this says how often the thing you actually need has happened.

OutcomeGames it happenedHow often
3+ receptions7 of 1450%
5+ receptions0 of 140%
7+ receptions0 of 140%
50+ receiving yards0 of 140%
75+ receiving yards0 of 140%
100+ receiving yards0 of 140%
Scored a touchdown4 of 1429%

Aaron Jones 2026 stats

Through 5 games of 2026, Aaron Jones has 97 carries for 410 rushing yards (82.0 a game) and 12 catches for 72 receiving yards (2.4 catches and 14.4 yards a game), with 2 touchdowns, on 73% of snaps.

Against the rest of his career

2026 so far (5 games)2017–2025 (132 games)
Catches per game2.42.9
Receiving yards per game14.421.9
Target share12.6%12.3%

Aaron Jones 2025 stats

In 2025 Aaron Jones had 132 carries for 548 yards and 28 catches for 199 yards over 12 games, with 3 touchdowns, on 55% of snaps.

Season by season

Aaron Jones: snap share and target share by season0204060801002017201820192020202120222023202420252026Snap shareTarget shareSeasonshare of the team
Role is the part of a player that carries. Snap share repeats at 0.98 between halves of a season and target share at 0.96, so this line is a far better guide to what comes next than a points total would be.
Aaron Jones: carries and targets per game by season05101520252017201820192020202120222023202420252026CarriesTargetsSeason
Per-game rates over the games he appeared in. Opportunity is what reproduces — carries repeat at 0.97 between halves of a season and target share at 0.92 — while the yards it turns into are a separate and noisier question.
Aaron Jones: yards per game by season0204060801002017201820192020202120222023202420252026RushingReceivingSeason
Receiving yards per game reproduce at 0.86 between halves of a season, against 0.61 for yards per catch — which is why this is modeled directly rather than as catches times yards per catch.
Aaron Jones: touchdowns per game by season00.511.50.4020170.7520181.2820190.7520200.6220210.4120220.4620230.3920240.2520250.402026
The least predictable thing a skill player does. Touchdown rate repeats at 0.55 between halves of a season against 0.89 for catches, so a spike here is mostly not a property of the player. Per game over the games he appeared in, so a season in progress is comparable to a finished one.

10 seasons of usage, 2017–2026 · per-game rates over games he appeared in · snap counts are from official play-by-play and begin in 2016

If Aaron Jones sits, who gets his work?The measured redistribution across the MIN room — with sample size and t-statisticThe whole Minnesota Vikings roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the Minnesota Vikings running back room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at RB for week 7.

What we have measured about running backs

Does a new head coach change who gets the ball?It changes WHO, not how muchDo touchdowns repeat from year to year?Much less than receptions

Projections are as-of-week with no lookahead · usage from official play-by-play and snap counts · 2026 week 7