Aaron Rodgers or Marcus Mariota: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 6:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Marcus Mariota, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB29 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs pass yds line 8-8
- Books price
- 13.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-10
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Rodgers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 119.
Our board does not carry Marcus Mariota at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Aaron Rodgers at 13.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Marcus Mariota, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 98 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 86 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 12 of 86 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against ATL he completed 24 of 40 passes for 221 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
In Week 2 against NE he completed 23 of 39 passes for 187 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
Through Week 2, Marcus Mariota has been on the field for 45 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 17 times and thrown 11.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 17 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards, threw 1 touchdown 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.
In 2025 Marcus Mariota played 11 games and scored 132.5 PPR points, 12.0 a game, finishing QB32.
He threw for 1695 yards on 227 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 297 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 20.6 attempts a game at 7.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Aaron Rodgers was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Aaron Rodgers scored 14.6 PPR points a game and Marcus Mariota 12.0, 2.6 a game between them.
Aaron Rodgers finished QB18 that year and Marcus Mariota QB32.
Aaron Rodgers had 271 more pass attempts than Marcus Mariota, 498 to 227.
Aaron Rodgers had 1627 more passing yards than Marcus Mariota, 3322 to 1695.
This season Aaron Rodgers holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 45 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 Marcus Mariota.
What would change the answer
Marcus Mariota has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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