Should I start Brock Purdy or Shedeur Sanders in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Brock Purdy: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 1 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB30 · SF · on bye this week
2026 vs pass yds line 4-3
- Market-based projection
- 18.5 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 201
QB · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Overall rank
- 221
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 201st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 221st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Brock Purdy, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
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 3, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 1 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 1 time and thrown -4.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 0 of 1 dropback.
In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 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 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.
He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26-27 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 60 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 Shedeur Sanders 11.9, 9.0 a game between them.
Brock Purdy finished QB24 that year and Shedeur Sanders QB37.
Brock Purdy had 72 more pass attempts than Shedeur Sanders, 284 to 212.
Brock Purdy had 767 more passing yards than Shedeur Sanders, 2167 to 1400.
This season Brock Purdy holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 1 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Shedeur Sanders in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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