Brock Purdy or Kyler Murray: 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 1:31 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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QB14 · SF · bye 8
2025 vs pass yds line 5-4
- Overall rank
- 92
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
QB15 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 0-5
- Books price
- 16.5 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 Kyler Murray: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 46.
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 Kyler Murray at 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 26th 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 so far
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 1, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 17 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 7 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 7 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against GB he completed 3 of 5 passes for 18 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 9 yards.
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 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.
He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Brock Purdy was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Kyler Murray 16.2, 4.7 a game between them.
Brock Purdy finished QB24 that year and Kyler Murray QB38.
Brock Purdy had 123 more pass attempts than Kyler Murray, 284 to 161.
Brock Purdy had 1205 more passing yards than Kyler Murray, 2167 to 962.
This season Brock Purdy holds the bigger snap share, 93 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Kyler Murray 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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