Should I start Trevor Lawrence or Dak Prescott in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trevor Lawrence, and the board ranks him 9th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dak Prescott, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Trevor Lawrence's market-based projection is 17.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Dak Prescott is 1.2 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.

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, Trevor Lawrence has been on the field for 97 percent of JAX snaps, dropped back 219 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 219 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 5 against PHI he completed 24 of 39 passes for 331 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

In Week 6 against HOU he completed 24 of 41 passes for 306 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 8 against IND he completed 10 of 14 passes for 210 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 10 yards.

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

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence played 17 games and scored 350.2 PPR points, 20.6 a game, finishing QB4.

He threw for 4007 yards on 560 attempts with 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 359 yards and 9 touchdowns.

That came to 32.9 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.

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

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence scored 20.6 PPR points a game and Dak Prescott 19.0, 1.6 a game between them.

Trevor Lawrence finished QB4 that year and Dak Prescott QB6.

Dak Prescott had 40 more pass attempts than Trevor Lawrence, 600 to 560.

Dak Prescott had 545 more passing yards than Trevor Lawrence, 4552 to 4007.

This season Dak Prescott holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 97 percent.

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

Byes and availability

Trevor Lawrence is off in Week 7 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.