Should I start Bryce Young or Joe Fagnano in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 10:21 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Bryce Young: 94 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Joe Fagnano's 78 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB9 · CAR · bye 5
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- Market-based projection
- 16.2 pts a game
QB10 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 25
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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 Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Fagnano, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Bryce Young's market-based projection is 16.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 10.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Joe Fagnano's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Bryce Young has been on the field for 95 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 296 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 50 of 296 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 6 against PHI he completed 20 of 39 passes for 281 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.
In Week 7 against TB he completed 14 of 27 passes for 163 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 9 yards.
In Week 8 against GB he completed 23 of 40 passes for 209 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
Through Week 8, Joe Fagnano has been on the field for 78 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 25 times and thrown 4.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 25 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 10 of 21 passes for 91 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.
He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Bryce Young holds the bigger snap share, 95 percent against 78 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Bryce Young is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Joe Fagnano.
Joe Fagnano is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Joe Fagnano has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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