Should I start Brock Purdy or Jalen Coker in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 22.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Jalen Coker's market-based projection is 11.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 58th highest figure of the 219 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 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Coker, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 98 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 231 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 231 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.

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.

Through Week 8, Jalen Coker has been on the field for 70 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 44 targets have averaged 10.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 6 of 13 targets for 97 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 35 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 Jalen Coker played 11 games and scored 90.4 PPR points, 8.2 a game, finishing WR69.

He caught 33 of 43 targets for 394 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 3.9 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jalen Coker was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Jalen Coker 8.2, 12.6 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Jalen Coker WR69, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Jalen Coker a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Jalen Coker in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

10.1 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.