Should I start Drew Lock or Pat Freiermuth in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Drew Lock's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pat Freiermuth, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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 8, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 8.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.

He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Pat Freiermuth was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Pat Freiermuth scored 6.7 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 6.7 a game between them.

Drew Lock finished QB73 and Pat Freiermuth TE25, which are two different ladders.

Drew Lock is a quarterback and Pat Freiermuth a tight end, 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 Pat Freiermuth in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

8.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.