Should I start Joe Burrow or Drew Lock in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 12:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Joe Burrow and Drew Lock are too close to call on usage: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets against 97 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games. 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.
QB1 · CIN · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 4-4
- Overall rank
- 1
QB17 · SEA · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 130
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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 Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 1st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Joe Burrow is 23.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Drew Lock is 1.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Joe Burrow's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 99 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 321 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 57 of 321 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 7 against BAL he completed 22 of 30 passes for 292 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
In Week 8 against TEN he completed 38 of 48 passes for 462 yards, threw 5 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 3 times for 10 yards.
In Week 9 against ATL he completed 24 of 29 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.
Through Week 9, Drew Lock has been on the field for 97 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 80 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 80 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
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.
In Week 9 against ARI he completed 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 18 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.
He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 86 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.
Joe Burrow was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 17.4 a game between them.
Joe Burrow finished QB29 that year and Drew Lock QB73.
Joe Burrow had 256 more pass attempts than Drew Lock, 259 to 3.
Joe Burrow had 1794 more passing yards than Drew Lock, 1809 to 15.
This season Joe Burrow holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 97 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Drew Lock in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
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