Should I start Jared Goff or Bo Nix in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jared Goff is 18.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 219 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 8

Through Week 8, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 269 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 41 of 269 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

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.

In Week 8 against MIN he completed 18 of 25 passes for 176 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

Through Week 8, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 268 times and thrown 5.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 268 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he completed 15 of 29 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 75 yards.

In Week 8 against KC he completed 20 of 32 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

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 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Jared Goff 17.9, 0.6 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 that year and Bo Nix QB7.

Bo Nix had 34 more pass attempts than Jared Goff, 612 to 578.

Jared Goff had 633 more passing yards than Bo Nix, 4564 to 3931.

This season Bo Nix holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 99 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.