Cam Ward or Tua Tagovailoa: 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 2:21 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Tua Tagovailoa, 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
QB34 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 5-9
- Overall rank
- 215
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 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 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 105.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tua Tagovailoa: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 215th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 161.
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 69th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Tua Tagovailoa, 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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tua Tagovailoa this season.
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 Tua Tagovailoa played 14 games and scored 175.7 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing QB25.
He threw for 2660 yards on 384 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 15 interceptions, and ran for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 27.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cam Ward was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Tua Tagovailoa scored 12.5 PPR points a game and Cam Ward 11.4, 1.2 a game between them.
Cam Ward finished QB22 that year and Tua Tagovailoa QB25.
Cam Ward had 156 more pass attempts than Tua Tagovailoa, 540 to 384.
Cam Ward had 509 more passing yards than Tua Tagovailoa, 3169 to 2660.
Byes and availability
Cam Ward is off in Week 9 and Tua Tagovailoa in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Tua Tagovailoa has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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