Should I start Bryce Young or Austin Ekeler in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 3:21 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Bryce Young: 93 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Austin Ekeler's 29 percent of the snaps and 28 percent of the carries. 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.
QB8 · CAR · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 6-2
- Overall rank
- 68
RB28 · WAS · bye 7
- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game
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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 Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Bryce Young is 18.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 7 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
Bryce Young's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Bryce Young has been on the field for 96 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 339 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 55 of 339 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 7 against TB he completed 14 of 27 passes for 163 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 9 yards.
In Week 8 against GB he completed 23 of 40 passes for 209 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
In Week 9 against DEN he completed 28 of 39 passes for 276 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 13 yards.
Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.
He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.
He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.
That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Bryce Young was available for 14 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 7.8 a game between them.
Bryce Young finished QB19 and Austin Ekeler RB103, which are two different ladders.
Bryce Young is a quarterback and Austin Ekeler a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Bryce Young is off in Week 5 and Austin Ekeler in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Bryce Young has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
- Is Bryce Young playing Week 10?
- Is Austin Ekeler playing Week 10?
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- Week 10 fantasy rankings
- Week 10 start or sit
- Week 10 waiver wire
- Week 10 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 10
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 10 kicker rankings
- Week 10 defense rankings
