Should I start Gardner Minshew II or Cam Ward in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 6:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Cam Ward: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Gardner Minshew II's 65 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.
QB28 · ARI · bye 14
- Market-based projection
- 11.5 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 155
QB29 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 10.9 pts a game
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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 Gardner Minshew II, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Cam Ward, and the board ranks him 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Gardner Minshew II, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Cam Ward's market-based projection is 10.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.
This season so far
Through Week 9, Gardner Minshew II has been on the field for 65 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 54 times and thrown 6.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 5 of 54 dropbacks.
In Week 8 against DAL he completed 17 of 20 passes for 188 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 9 against SEA he completed 21 of 30 passes for 166 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
Through Week 8, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 278 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 278 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.
In Week 6 against IND he completed 11 of 22 passes for 102 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 8 yards.
In Week 7 against CLE he completed 20 of 31 passes for 181 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
In Week 8 against CIN he completed 26 of 40 passes for 304 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 41 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Gardner Minshew II played 4 games and scored 0.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing QB72.
He threw for 37 yards on 13 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, and ran for 2 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 3.3 attempts a game at 2.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Cam Ward played 17 games and scored 193.7 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing QB22.
He threw for 3169 yards on 540 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 31.8 attempts a game at 5.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cam Ward was available for 13 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Gardner Minshew II 0.2, 11.2 a game between them.
Gardner Minshew II finished QB72 that year and Cam Ward QB22.
Cam Ward had 527 more pass attempts than Gardner Minshew II, 540 to 13.
Cam Ward had 3132 more passing yards than Gardner Minshew II, 3169 to 37.
This season Cam Ward holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 65 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Gardner Minshew II is off in Week 14 and Cam Ward in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
Gardner Minshew II is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Gardner Minshew II has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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