Should I start Brock Purdy or Khalil Shakir in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Brock Purdy is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Khalil Shakir is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brock Purdy's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 63 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

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 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.

He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Khalil Shakir was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Khalil Shakir 10.4, 10.4 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Khalil Shakir WR36, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Khalil Shakir 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 Khalil Shakir in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.