Bryce Young or Brock Purdy: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 12:56 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Brock Purdy, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB13 · CAR · bye 5
2025 vs pass yds line 6-10
- Books price
- 16.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB14 · SF · bye 8
2025 vs pass yds line 5-4
- Overall rank
- 92
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bryce Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 91.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Purdy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Bryce Young at 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The books have Brock Purdy at 16.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 17 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Brock Purdy's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Bryce Young has been on the field for 92 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 80 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 80 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 1 against CHI he completed 23 of 37 passes for 361 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 10 yards.
In Week 2 against ATL he completed 23 of 36 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.
Through Week 2, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 93 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 61 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 61 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 1 against LAR he completed 25 of 34 passes for 205 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 29 yards.
In Week 2 against MIA he completed 20 of 22 passes for 287 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 30 yards.
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 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.
He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Bryce Young was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Bryce Young 14.3, 6.5 a game between them.
Bryce Young finished QB19 that year and Brock Purdy QB24.
Bryce Young had 194 more pass attempts than Brock Purdy, 478 to 284.
Bryce Young had 844 more passing yards than Brock Purdy, 3011 to 2167.
This season Brock Purdy holds the bigger snap share, 93 percent against 92 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Bryce Young is off in Week 5 and Brock Purdy in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Brock Purdy is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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