Cam Ward or Marcus Mariota: who should I start in Week 3?
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 25, 2026 at 6:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Marcus Mariota, 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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QB32 · TEN · bye 9
2025 vs pass yds line 8-9
- Books price
- 12.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-10
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 105.
Our board does not carry Marcus Mariota at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Cam Ward at 12.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 63rd highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Marcus Mariota, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 63 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 63 dropbacks and scrambled 6 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.
In Week 2 against PHI he completed 13 of 20 passes for 183 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 7 yards.
Through Week 2, Marcus Mariota has been on the field for 45 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 17 times and thrown 11.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 17 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 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 Marcus Mariota played 11 games and scored 132.5 PPR points, 12.0 a game, finishing QB32.
He threw for 1695 yards on 227 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 297 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 20.6 attempts a game at 7.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cam Ward was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Marcus Mariota scored 12.0 PPR points a game and Cam Ward 11.4, 0.7 a game between them.
Cam Ward finished QB22 that year and Marcus Mariota QB32.
Cam Ward had 313 more pass attempts than Marcus Mariota, 540 to 227.
Cam Ward had 1474 more passing yards than Marcus Mariota, 3169 to 1695.
This season Cam Ward holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 45 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Cam Ward is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Marcus Mariota.
What would change the answer
Marcus Mariota has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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