Should I start Jadarian Price or Dak Prescott in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jadarian Price, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dak Prescott, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jadarian Price's market-based projection is 10.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Dak Prescott is 21.8 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 5 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jadarian Price has been on the field for 36 percent of SEA snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 4.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against ARI he carried 13 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against WAS he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 10 times for 29 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 330 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 330 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 6 against GB he completed 34 of 54 passes for 258 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

In Week 7 against PHI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 212 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

In Week 8 against ARI he completed 19 of 29 passes for 195 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 21 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

Jadarian Price is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.

He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Jadarian Price is a running back and Dak Prescott a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jadarian Price is off in Week 11 and Dak Prescott in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Dak Prescott has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.