Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Drew Lock in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has J.J. McCarthy at 15.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Drew Lock's market-based projection is 15.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 38th highest figure of the 224 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 42 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 49 times and thrown 11.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 49 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 5 against WAS he completed 0 of 0 passes for 0 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

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.

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.

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 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.

J.J. McCarthy was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 J.J. McCarthy scored 13.7 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 13.7 a game between them.

J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 that year and Drew Lock QB73.

J.J. McCarthy had 240 more pass attempts than Drew Lock, 243 to 3.

J.J. McCarthy had 1617 more passing yards than Drew Lock, 1632 to 15.

This season Drew Lock holds the bigger snap share, 96 percent against 42 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Drew Lock is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.

Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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