Should I start Carson Wentz or Drew Lock in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:26 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Drew Lock: 96 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 2 games, against Carson Wentz's 91 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass td line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 277
QB · SEA · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 283
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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 Carson Wentz, and the board ranks him 277th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 283rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Carson Wentz, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Drew Lock, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Carson Wentz has been on the field for 91 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 47 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 47 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.
Through Week 2, Drew Lock has been on the field for 96 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 51 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 51 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against NE he completed 16 of 22 passes for 187 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 14 yards.
In Week 2 against ARI he completed 19 of 26 passes for 235 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Drew Lock played 5 games and scored 0.1 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing QB73.
He threw for 15 yards on 3 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for -5 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 0.6 attempts a game at 5.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 5 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Carson Wentz scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 15.0 a game between them.
Carson Wentz finished QB39 that year and Drew Lock QB73.
Carson Wentz had 166 more pass attempts than Drew Lock, 169 to 3.
Carson Wentz had 1201 more passing yards than Drew Lock, 1216 to 15.
This season Drew Lock holds the bigger snap share, 96 percent against 91 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Carson Wentz is off in Week 6 and Drew Lock in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Drew Lock is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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