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Should I start Drew Lock or Michael Pittman Jr. in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 8:11 PM ET.

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  • : Seahawks to start QB Drew Lock vs. Raiders, giving Sam Darnold more time to heal (ESPN)
  • : Drew Lock: Listed Questionable (Oblique) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Seahawks' Quenton Nelson, Sam Darnold among starters ruled out (ESPN)

Start Drew Lock: 97 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Michael Pittman Jr.'s 78 percent of the snaps and 11 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.

QB14 · SEA · bye 11

Market-based projection
14.7 pts a game

WR65 · PIT · bye 9

2025 vs rec yds line 5-12

Overall rank
127

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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 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Pittman Jr., and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Drew Lock's market-based projection is 14.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Michael Pittman Jr. at 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Michael Pittman Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 4, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

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 Michael Pittman Jr. played 17 games and scored 202.4 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR18.

He caught 80 of 111 targets for 784 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Michael Pittman Jr. was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Michael Pittman Jr. scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 11.9 a game between them.

Drew Lock finished QB73 and Michael Pittman Jr. WR18, which are two different ladders.

Drew Lock is a quarterback and Michael Pittman Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Drew Lock is off in Week 11 and Michael Pittman Jr. in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Michael Pittman Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Both players in full

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