Should I start Shedeur Sanders or Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 11:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Deebo Samuel Sr.: 62 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 37 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB7 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 12.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 15
WR14 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 47
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 15th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Deebo Samuel Sr., and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market has Deebo Samuel Sr. at 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
This season so far
Through Week 9, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 37 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 45 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 45 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 8 against PIT he completed 2 of 2 passes for 2 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 9 against NO he completed 19 of 30 passes for 297 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 9 times for 29 yards.
Through Week 5, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 57 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 20 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against SEA he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.
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 26-27 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.
In 2025 Deebo Samuel Sr. played 16 games and scored 188.2 PPR points, 11.8 a game, finishing WR25.
He caught 72 of 99 targets for 727 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 10.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Deebo Samuel Sr. was available for 8 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Shedeur Sanders scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Deebo Samuel Sr. 11.8, 0.1 a game between them.
Shedeur Sanders finished QB37 and Deebo Samuel Sr. WR25, which are two different ladders.
Shedeur Sanders is a quarterback and Deebo Samuel Sr. a wide receiver, 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 Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Deebo Samuel Sr. is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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