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Should I start Aaron Rodgers or Fernando Mendoza in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 6:26 AM ET.

Start Aaron Rodgers: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Fernando Mendoza's 17 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Aaron Rodgers

QB · PIT · on bye this week

2026 vs pass yds line 5-3

Market-based projection
14.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
246

Fernando Mendoza

QB · LV · bye 13

Overall rank
264

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Aaron Rodgers, and the board ranks him 246th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Fernando Mendoza, and the board ranks him 264th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Aaron Rodgers, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Fernando Mendoza, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

Through Week 8, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 99 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 311 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 48 of 311 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 6 against TB he completed 33 of 47 passes for 253 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 7 against NO he completed 19 of 30 passes for 212 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.

In Week 8 against CLE he completed 13 of 24 passes for 172 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception.

Through Week 5, Fernando Mendoza has been on the field for 17 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 9 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 9 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 6 of 8 passes for 48 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.

He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Aaron Rodgers holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 17 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Aaron Rodgers is off in Week 9 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

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