Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Carson Wentz in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 10:21 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : J.J. McCarthy: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Kyler Murray: Questionable to Out (Hamstring, Soreness) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Vikings to start QB Carson Wentz against Bills with Kyler Murray ruled out (ESPN)
Start Carson Wentz: 91 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against J.J. McCarthy's 68 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB6 · NYG · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 4-6
- Market-based projection
- 16.0 pts a game
QB31 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 183
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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 J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Carson Wentz, and the board ranks him 183rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
J.J. McCarthy's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Carson Wentz is 0.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Carson Wentz's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 49 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 11.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 6 against NO he completed 11 of 17 passes for 243 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 26 yards.
In Week 7 against HOU he completed 20 of 27 passes for 252 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 9 against PHI he completed 12 of 19 passes for 127 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 23 yards.
Through Week 9, Carson Wentz has been on the field for 91 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 J.J. McCarthy played 10 games and scored 137.4 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB30.
He threw for 1632 yards on 243 attempts with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 181 yards and 4 touchdowns.
That came to 24.3 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 94 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.
J.J. McCarthy was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Carson Wentz scored 15.1 PPR points a game and J.J. McCarthy 13.7, 1.3 a game between them.
J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 that year and Carson Wentz QB39.
J.J. McCarthy had 74 more pass attempts than Carson Wentz, 243 to 169.
J.J. McCarthy had 416 more passing yards than Carson Wentz, 1632 to 1216.
This season Carson Wentz holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 49 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Carson Wentz is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.
J.J. McCarthy is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Carson Wentz has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
- Is J.J. McCarthy playing Week 10?
- Is Carson Wentz playing Week 10?
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- Week 10 QB rankings
- Week 10 fantasy rankings
- Week 10 start or sit
- Week 10 waiver wire
- Week 10 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 10
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
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