Should I start Aaron Rodgers or J.J. McCarthy in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 12:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Week 10 verdict
Start Aaron Rodgers over J.J. McCarthy
- Market projects
- 16.5
- fantasy pts
- CIN D vs QB
- 18.4
- 14th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 98%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 16.0
- fantasy pts
- WAS D vs QB
- 20.6
- 3rd most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 49%
- Through Week 9
Start Aaron Rodgers: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against J.J. McCarthy's 68 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB4 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Overall rank
- 8
QB6 · NYG · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 4-6
- Market-based projection
- 16.1 pts a game
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The gap
- Board size307 draftable players
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 8th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Aaron Rodgers is 17.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
J.J. McCarthy's market-based projection is 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.
Aaron Rodgers's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 98 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 9, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 49 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 11.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 6 against NO he completed 11 of 17 passes for 243 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 26 yards.
In Week 7 against HOU he completed 20 of 27 passes for 252 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 9 against PHI he completed 12 of 19 passes for 127 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 23 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.
In 2025 J.J. McCarthy played 10 games and scored 137.4 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB30.
He threw for 1632 yards on 243 attempts with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 181 yards and 4 touchdowns.
That came to 24.3 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Aaron Rodgers was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Aaron Rodgers scored 14.6 PPR points a game and J.J. McCarthy 13.7, 0.9 a game between them.
Aaron Rodgers finished QB18 that year and J.J. McCarthy QB30.
Aaron Rodgers had 255 more pass attempts than J.J. McCarthy, 498 to 243.
Aaron Rodgers had 1690 more passing yards than J.J. McCarthy, 3322 to 1632.
This season Aaron Rodgers holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 49 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Aaron Rodgers is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.
J.J. McCarthy is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Aaron Rodgers has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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