Shedeur Sanders or Dallas Defense: who should I start in Week 3?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 5:46 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB35 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Overall rank
- 223
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
DEF16 · DAL · bye 14
- Overall rank
- 225
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 1
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Shedeur Sanders: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 223rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dallas Defense: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Dallas Defense, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.
He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26.5 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Dallas Defense in the last completed season.
Side by side
Shedeur Sanders is a quarterback and Dallas Defense a defense, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Shedeur Sanders is off in Week 11 and Dallas Defense in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
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