Should I start Baker Mayfield or Joe Fagnano in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:36 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Rookie Joe Fagnano to start Thursday night vs. Jaguars, Jesse Minter says (ESPN)
Week 9 verdict
Start Baker Mayfield over Joe Fagnano
- Market projects
- 15.6
- fantasy pts
- CHI D vs QB
- 19.7
- 8th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 9.1
- fantasy pts
- JAX D vs QB
- 15.6
- 9th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 78%
- Through Week 8
Start Baker Mayfield: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Joe Fagnano's 78 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB17 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 114
QB22 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 211
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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 Baker Mayfield, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Fagnano, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Baker Mayfield is 15.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 9.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Baker Mayfield's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 97 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 134 times and thrown 8.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 134 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.
In Week 7 against CAR he completed 7 of 11 passes for 64 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against ATL he completed 0 of 3 passes for 0 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 15 yards.
Through Week 8, Joe Fagnano has been on the field for 78 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 25 times and thrown 4.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 25 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 10 of 21 passes for 91 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.
He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Baker Mayfield holds the bigger snap share, 97 percent against 78 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Joe Fagnano.
Joe Fagnano is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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