Should I start Darnell Washington or Carson Wentz in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 7:31 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Carson Wentz: 88 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Darnell Washington's 64 percent of the snaps and 13 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.
TE17 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 7.4 pts a game
QB21 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 117
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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 Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Carson Wentz, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 7.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 100th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Carson Wentz, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.
In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Carson Wentz has been on the field for 88 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 72 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 72 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against GB he completed 12 of 19 passes for 133 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 2 against CHI he completed 11 of 20 passes for 143 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
In Week 9 against BUF he completed 8 of 24 passes for 81 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.
He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Carson Wentz played 5 games and scored 75.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB39.
He threw for 1216 yards on 169 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 57 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 33.8 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 71 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Darnell Washington was available for 11 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Carson Wentz scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 10.5 a game between them.
Darnell Washington finished TE39 and Carson Wentz QB39, which are two different ladders.
Darnell Washington is a tight end and Carson Wentz a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and Carson Wentz in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Carson Wentz is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Carson Wentz has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
- Is Darnell Washington playing Week 10?
- Is Carson Wentz playing Week 10?
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- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
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- Waiver wire pickups
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