Cam Ward or Kyler Murray: who should I start?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:26 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Kyler Murray, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB26 · TEN · bye 9
2025 vs pass yds line 8-9
- Books price
- 11.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB28 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 187
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 153rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 105.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyler Murray: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 46.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Cam Ward at 11.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 69th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Kyler Murray, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 39 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 6 of 39 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 1 against NYJ he completed 19 of 32 passes for 140 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 21 yards.
Through Week 1, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 17 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 7 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 7 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against GB he completed 3 of 5 passes for 18 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 9 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.
He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cam Ward was available for 12 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kyler Murray scored 16.2 PPR points a game and Cam Ward 11.4, 4.8 a game between them.
Cam Ward finished QB22 that year and Kyler Murray QB38.
Cam Ward had 379 more pass attempts than Kyler Murray, 540 to 161.
Cam Ward had 2207 more passing yards than Kyler Murray, 3169 to 962.
This season Cam Ward holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Cam Ward is off in Week 9 and Kyler Murray in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Kyler Murray is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Kyler Murray has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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