Should I start Drew Lock or Jameis Winston in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:26 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Drew Lock: Questionable to Out (Elbow) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Drew Lock: 96 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jameis Winston's 58 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.
QB · SEA · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 283
QB · NYG · bye 8
2026 vs pass td line 2-4
- Overall rank
- 289
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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 Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 283rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jameis Winston, and the board ranks him 289th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Drew Lock, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jameis Winston, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 2, Drew Lock has been on the field for 96 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 51 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 51 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against NE he completed 16 of 22 passes for 187 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 14 yards.
In Week 2 against ARI he completed 19 of 26 passes for 235 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Through Week 7, Jameis Winston has been on the field for 75 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 178 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 178 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 5 against WAS he completed 33 of 54 passes for 326 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 28 yards.
In Week 6 against NO he completed 14 of 26 passes for 152 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
In Week 7 against HOU he completed 0 of 0 passes for 0 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 4 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Drew Lock played 5 games and scored 0.1 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing QB73.
He threw for 15 yards on 3 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for -5 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 0.6 attempts a game at 5.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jameis Winston played 3 games and scored 45.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB46.
He threw for 567 yards on 66 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, and ran for 23 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 22.0 attempts a game at 8.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Drew Lock was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jameis Winston scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 15.1 a game between them.
Drew Lock finished QB73 that year and Jameis Winston QB46.
Jameis Winston had 63 more pass attempts than Drew Lock, 66 to 3.
Jameis Winston had 552 more passing yards than Drew Lock, 567 to 15.
This season Drew Lock holds the bigger snap share, 96 percent against 75 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Drew Lock is off in Week 11 and Jameis Winston in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Drew Lock is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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