Justin Herbert or D'Andre Swift: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Justin Herbert at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 21st highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

The player markets price D'Andre Swift at 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 books. That is the 48th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 26.

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 13; 2QB: ADP 59.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 66 times and thrown 10.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 66 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 1 against ARI he completed 17 of 27 passes for 209 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 29 yards.

In Week 2 against LV he completed 15 of 27 passes for 192 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 2 yards.

Through Week 2, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 4 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against CAR he carried 18 times for 124 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 16 times for 45 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.

He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and D'Andre Swift 14.3, 4.5 a game between them.

Justin Herbert finished QB10 and D'Andre Swift RB15, which are two different ladders.

Justin Herbert is a quarterback and D'Andre Swift a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Justin Herbert is off in Week 7 and D'Andre Swift in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.8 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.