Should I start Joe Burrow or Bhayshul Tuten in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Joe Burrow's market-based projection is 22.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

Bhayshul Tuten's market-based projection is 14.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 34th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bhayshul Tuten, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 99 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 321 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 57 of 321 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 7 against BAL he completed 22 of 30 passes for 292 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 8 against TEN he completed 38 of 48 passes for 462 yards, threw 5 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 3 times for 10 yards.

In Week 9 against ATL he completed 24 of 29 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 9, Bhayshul Tuten has been on the field for 53 percent of JAX snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 6 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 3.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against HOU he carried 12 times for 39 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 48 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against IND he carried 16 times for 104 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 55 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against BAL he carried 12 times for 29 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bhayshul Tuten played 15 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB53.

He carried 83 times for 307 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 14 targets for 79 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 21 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bhayshul Tuten was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Bhayshul Tuten 5.9, 11.5 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 and Bhayshul Tuten RB53, which are two different ladders.

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and Bhayshul Tuten a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Bhayshul Tuten in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Bhayshul Tuten is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.7 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.