Should I start Tyler Goodson or Bryce Young in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Goodson, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyler Goodson is 5.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Tyler Goodson has been on the field for 15 percent of DAL snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against TB he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he carried 10 times for 38 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Goodson played 11 games and scored 5.2 PPR points, 0.5 a game, finishing RB121.

He carried 9 times for 24 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 8 more yards.

That came to 0.8 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Bryce Young was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Tyler Goodson 0.5, 13.8 a game between them.

Tyler Goodson finished RB121 and Bryce Young QB19, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Goodson is a running back and Bryce Young a quarterback, 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. No bye is listed for Tyler Goodson.

What would change the answer

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