Should I start Jonah Coleman or Drew Lock in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 3:31 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Coach: Seahawks QB Sam Darnold ruled out with quad injury, is week-to-week (ESPN)
- : Sam Darnold: Listed Out (Quadriceps) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : 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 Jonah Coleman's 52 percent of the snaps and 42 percent of the carries. 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.
RB40 · DEN · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 121
QB24 · SEA · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 15.3 pts a game
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The gap
- Board size308 draftable players
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 Jonah Coleman, and the board ranks him 121st 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-based projection for Jonah Coleman is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back'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.
Jonah Coleman's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Jonah Coleman has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 6 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against JAX he carried 10 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 9 times for 54 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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
Jonah Coleman is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Side by side
Jonah Coleman is a running back and Drew Lock a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jonah Coleman is off in Week 10 and Drew Lock in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jonah Coleman has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Jonah Coleman playing Week 9?
- Is Drew Lock playing Week 9?
- Broncos depth chart
- Seahawks depth chart
- Week 9 QB rankings
- Week 9 RB rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
