Should I start Jacoby Brissett or Darren Waller in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Jacoby Brissett's market-based projection is 14.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 41st highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacoby Brissett, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 8, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 94 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 331 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 61 of 331 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 6 against LAR he completed 24 of 35 passes for 218 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

In Week 7 against DEN he completed 27 of 48 passes for 272 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 16 yards.

In Week 8 against DAL he completed 10 of 23 passes for 119 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 7 yards.

Through Week 9, Darren Waller has been on the field for 49 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against DEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jacoby Brissett played 14 games and scored 235.4 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB16.

He threw for 3366 yards on 485 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 168 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 34.6 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacoby Brissett was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jacoby Brissett scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Darren Waller 9.9, 7.0 a game between them.

Jacoby Brissett finished QB16 and Darren Waller TE33, which are two different ladders.

Jacoby Brissett is a quarterback and Darren Waller a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jacoby Brissett is off in Week 13 and Darren Waller in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.7 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.