Should I start Drew Lock or Austin Ekeler in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Drew Lock's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 44th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Drew Lock has been on the field for 97 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 80 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 80 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.

In Week 1 against NE he completed 16 of 22 passes for 187 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 14 yards.

In Week 2 against ARI he completed 19 of 26 passes for 235 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 9 against ARI he completed 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 18 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 Drew Lock played 5 games and scored 0.1 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing QB73.

He threw for 15 yards on 3 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for -5 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 0.6 attempts a game at 5.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 4 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.

Drew Lock was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Austin Ekeler scored 6.6 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 6.5 a game between them.

Drew Lock finished QB73 and Austin Ekeler RB103, which are two different ladders.

Drew Lock 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

Drew Lock is off in Week 11 and Austin Ekeler in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.9 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.