Should I start Shedeur Sanders or DK Metcalf in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 10:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start DK Metcalf: 93 percent of the snaps and 29 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB7 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 12.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 13
WR6 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 11.9 pts a game
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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 13th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on DK Metcalf, and the board ranks him 15th 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.
DK Metcalf's market-based projection is 11.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 3 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based 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 8, DK Metcalf has been on the field for 95 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 20 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 64 targets have averaged 12.6 air yards.
In Week 6 against TB he caught 11 of 15 targets for 93 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NO he caught 2 of 6 targets for 56 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CLE he caught 1 of 6 targets for 4 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 DK Metcalf played 15 games and scored 187.2 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing WR26.
He caught 59 of 99 targets for 850 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
DK Metcalf was available for 7 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 DK Metcalf scored 12.5 PPR points a game and Shedeur Sanders 11.9, 0.6 a game between them.
Shedeur Sanders finished QB37 and DK Metcalf WR26, which are two different ladders.
Shedeur Sanders is a quarterback and DK Metcalf 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 DK Metcalf in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Shedeur Sanders has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
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