Should I start Sam Darnold or Devin Singletary in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sam Darnold, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Devin Singletary, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Sam Darnold's market-based projection is 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Devin Singletary is 4.9 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 86 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 166 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 166 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against LAC he completed 13 of 22 passes for 168 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 8 yards.

In Week 5 against SF he completed 18 of 29 passes for 195 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.

In Week 6 against DEN he completed 27 of 49 passes for 278 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 19 yards.

Through Week 6, Devin Singletary has been on the field for 35 percent of NYG snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 3.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against DAL he carried 6 times for 16 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against LAR he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Sam Darnold played 17 games and scored 249.4 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing QB13.

He threw for 4048 yards on 477 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and ran for 95 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 28.1 attempts a game at 9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Devin Singletary played 17 games and scored 108.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing RB45.

He carried 119 times for 437 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 19 targets for 151 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Sam Darnold scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Devin Singletary 6.4, 8.3 a game between them.

Sam Darnold finished QB13 and Devin Singletary RB45, which are two different ladders.

Sam Darnold is a quarterback and Devin Singletary a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Sam Darnold is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Devin Singletary.

What would change the answer

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