Should I start J.J. McCarthy or DeMario Douglas in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

J.J. McCarthy's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for DeMario Douglas is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

DeMario Douglas's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 49 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 11.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 6 against NO he completed 11 of 17 passes for 243 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 26 yards.

In Week 7 against HOU he completed 20 of 27 passes for 252 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

In Week 9 against PHI he completed 12 of 19 passes for 127 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 23 yards.

Through Week 9, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 57 percent of NE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 76 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against GB he caught 5 of 9 targets for 102 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 J.J. McCarthy played 10 games and scored 137.4 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB30.

He threw for 1632 yards on 243 attempts with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 181 yards and 4 touchdowns.

That came to 24.3 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.

He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DeMario Douglas was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 J.J. McCarthy scored 13.7 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 8.1 a game between them.

J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 and DeMario Douglas WR65, which are two different ladders.

J.J. McCarthy is a quarterback and DeMario Douglas a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

DeMario Douglas is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.

J.J. McCarthy is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

DeMario Douglas has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.