Should I start Fernando Mendoza or Carson Wentz in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:26 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Carson Wentz: 91 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 2 games, against Fernando Mendoza's 17 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 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 264
QB · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass td line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 277
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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 Fernando Mendoza, and the board ranks him 264th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Carson Wentz, and the board ranks him 277th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Fernando Mendoza, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Carson Wentz, 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 so far
Through Week 5, Fernando Mendoza has been on the field for 17 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 9 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 9 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 5 against NE he completed 6 of 8 passes for 48 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Carson Wentz holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Fernando Mendoza is off in Week 13 and Carson Wentz in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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