Should I start Jared Goff or Amon-Ra St. Brown in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 2:06 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 26, 3:43 PM ET: Amon-Ra St. Brown: Listed Questionable (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Jared Goff: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Amon-Ra St. Brown's 87 percent of the snaps and 30 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.

Should I drop Jared Goff for Amon-Ra St. Brown?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Amon-Ra St. Brown projects 201 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (20.1 a game over 10 games), Jared Goff 169 (16.9 a game over 10 games). Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Jared Goff

QB1 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Overall rank: 3

Amon-Ra St. Brown

WR2 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Market-based projection: 17.9 pts a game

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The gap

Board size293 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 Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 3rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Amon-Ra St. Brown, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jared Goff is 18.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Amon-Ra St. Brown's market-based projection is 17.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 240 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 33 of 240 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against CAR he completed 32 of 52 passes for 412 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against ARI he completed 19 of 30 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

In Week 7 against GB he completed 22 of 32 passes for 303 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

Through Week 7, Amon-Ra St. Brown has been on the field for 87 percent of DET snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 22 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 68 targets have averaged 8.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 8 of 11 targets for 75 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 6 of 11 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against GB he carried 1 time for -1 yards, caught 9 of 11 targets for 153 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.

He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Amon-Ra St. Brown played 17 games and scored 324.0 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing WR3.

He caught 117 of 172 targets for 1401 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 34 red zone targets.

That came to 10.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Amon-Ra St. Brown scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Jared Goff 17.9, 1.1 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 and Amon-Ra St. Brown WR3, which are two different ladders.

Jared Goff is a quarterback and Amon-Ra St. Brown a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jared Goff for Amon-Ra St. Brown?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Amon-Ra St. Brown projects 201 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (20.1 a game over 10 games), Jared Goff 169 (16.9 a game over 10 games). Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed questionable.
Should I drop Amon-Ra St. Brown for Jared Goff?
No. Keep Amon-Ra St. Brown: he projects 201 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (20.1 a game over 10 games), Jared Goff 169 (16.9 a game over 10 games). Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed questionable.