Should I start Kyler Murray or Chig Okonkwo in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Kyler Murray's market-based projection is 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Chig Okonkwo's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyler Murray, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 86 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 184 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 184 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

In Week 5 against NO he completed 24 of 29 passes for 229 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 54 yards.

In Week 7 against IND he completed 14 of 24 passes for 150 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 41 yards.

In Week 8 against DET he completed 17 of 29 passes for 210 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 36 yards.

Through Week 8, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 67 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 7.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.

He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chig Okonkwo was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyler Murray scored 16.2 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 8.9 a game between them.

Kyler Murray finished QB38 and Chig Okonkwo TE21, which are two different ladders.

Kyler Murray is a quarterback and Chig Okonkwo a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyler Murray is off in Week 6 and Chig Okonkwo in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Kyler Murray is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

8.5 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.