Should I start Bryce Young or Trey McBride in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trey McBride, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.

The market-based projections

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 16.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Trey McBride is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Bryce Young has been on the field for 94 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 250 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 41 of 250 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

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.

Through Week 7, Trey McBride has been on the field for 91 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 22 of the offence's 76 third down targets, had 4 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 45 two minute targets.

His 78 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 9 of 10 targets for 66 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 7 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 111 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

In 2025 Trey McBride played 17 games and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.

He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets.

That came to 9.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Trey McBride was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Trey McBride scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Bryce Young 14.3, 4.3 a game between them.

Bryce Young finished QB19 and Trey McBride TE1, which are two different ladders.

Bryce Young is a quarterback and Trey McBride a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bryce Young is off in Week 5 and Trey McBride in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Trey McBride has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.