Should I start Tyler Shough or Aaron Jones Sr. in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Shough, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Aaron Jones Sr., and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyler Shough is 18.9 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Aaron Jones Sr.'s market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 62nd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 341 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 341 dropbacks and scrambled 14 times.

In Week 6 against NYG he completed 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 33 yards.

In Week 7 against PIT he completed 30 of 38 passes for 278 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 7 yards.

In Week 9 against CLE he completed 21 of 35 passes for 265 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 9 times for 52 yards.

Through Week 9, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 32 percent of MIN snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against IND he carried 8 times for 26 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DET he carried 5 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against BUF he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Aaron Jones Sr. played 12 games and scored 118.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing RB41.

He carried 132 times for 548 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 28 of 41 targets for 199 more yards.

That came to 11.0 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Aaron Jones Sr. was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 5.0 a game between them.

Tyler Shough finished QB26 and Aaron Jones Sr. RB41, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Shough is a quarterback and Aaron Jones Sr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyler Shough is off in Week 8 and Aaron Jones Sr. in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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