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Should I start Malik Willis or Carson Wentz in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 2:46 PM ET.

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  • : Carson Wentz: Listed Questionable (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Fantasy buzz: Malik Willis placed on IR, are there any Dolphins you should start? (ESPN)
  • : Dolphins put QB Malik Willis on IR with groin injury (ESPN)

Start Malik Willis: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Carson Wentz's 88 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.

QB32 · MIA · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 5-3

Market-based projection
18.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
223

QB33 · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs pass td line 3-2

Market-based projection
14.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
224

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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 Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 223rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Carson Wentz, and the board ranks him 224th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Malik Willis is 0.5 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.

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.

Malik Willis's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 254 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 254 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.

In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.

In Week 8 against NE he completed 21 of 32 passes for 211 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 9 against DET he completed 13 of 24 passes for 128 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

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 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.

He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 10 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.

Carson Wentz was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Carson Wentz scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Malik Willis 12.8, 2.3 a game between them.

Malik Willis finished QB45 that year and Carson Wentz QB39.

Carson Wentz had 134 more pass attempts than Malik Willis, 169 to 35.

Carson Wentz had 794 more passing yards than Malik Willis, 1216 to 422.

This season Malik Willis holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 88 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Malik Willis is listed as ir on the injury report.

Carson Wentz is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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