Should I start Brock Purdy or Isaiah Likely in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 19.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

Isaiah Likely's market-based projection is 11.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaiah Likely, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 261 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 29 of 261 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

In Week 7 against ATL he completed 27 of 39 passes for 288 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 9 against LV he completed 17 of 25 passes for 232 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 7 times for 40 yards.

Through Week 9, Isaiah Likely has been on the field for 75 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 69 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against NO he caught 6 of 11 targets for 99 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against HOU he caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Isaiah Likely played 14 games and scored 61.7 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing TE45.

He caught 27 of 36 targets for 307 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Isaiah Likely was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Isaiah Likely 4.4, 16.4 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Isaiah Likely TE45, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Isaiah Likely a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

7.5 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.