Should I start C.J. Stroud or Jeremy McNichols in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Jeremy McNichols: Questionable to IR (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jeremy McNichols: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start C.J. Stroud: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 19 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the carries. 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.
QB15 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 5-2
- Market-based projection
- 16.9 pts a game
RB31 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 96
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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 C.J. Stroud, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 30.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
C.J. Stroud's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 18th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jeremy McNichols, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 7, C.J. Stroud has been on the field for 100 percent of HOU snaps, dropped back 266 times and thrown 9.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 35 of 266 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 5 against TEN he completed 26 of 34 passes for 261 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 7 yards.
In Week 6 against JAX he completed 24 of 34 passes for 312 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 7 against NYG he completed 17 of 28 passes for 153 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 C.J. Stroud played 14 games and scored 216.5 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing QB21.
He threw for 3041 yards on 423 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 209 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.2 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.
That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jeremy McNichols was available for 3 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 C.J. Stroud scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 11.2 a game between them.
C.J. Stroud finished QB21 and Jeremy McNichols RB58, which are two different ladders.
C.J. Stroud is a quarterback and Jeremy McNichols a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
C.J. Stroud is off in Week 8 and Jeremy McNichols in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jeremy McNichols has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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