Brock Purdy or Joe Burrow: 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 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM 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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QB14 · SF · bye 8
2025 vs pass yds line 5-4
- Overall rank
- 92
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
QB16 · CIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 2-6
- Books price
- 16.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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 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.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.
What the sportsbooks 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.
The player markets price Joe Burrow at 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 27th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
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, 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.
Through Week 2, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 73 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 73 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against TB he completed 25 of 35 passes for 254 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 21 yards.
In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
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 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.
Brock Purdy was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Joe Burrow 17.4, 3.4 a game between them.
Brock Purdy finished QB24 that year and Joe Burrow QB29.
Brock Purdy had 25 more pass attempts than Joe Burrow, 284 to 259.
Brock Purdy had 358 more passing yards than Joe Burrow, 2167 to 1809.
This season Joe Burrow holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 93 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Joe Burrow in Week 6, 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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