Should I start Drew Lock or Shedeur Sanders in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 2:36 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 2 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 4 percent of the snaps and 0 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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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.
QB32 · SEA · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 226
QB · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Overall rank
- 243
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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 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 243rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Drew Lock is 0.9 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.
No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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.
Through Week 8, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 4 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 3 times and thrown -1.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 0 of 3 dropbacks.
In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 8 against PIT he completed 2 of 2 passes for 2 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
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 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.
He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26-27 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Shedeur Sanders was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Shedeur Sanders scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 11.8 a game between them.
Drew Lock finished QB73 that year and Shedeur Sanders QB37.
Shedeur Sanders had 209 more pass attempts than Drew Lock, 212 to 3.
Shedeur Sanders had 1385 more passing yards than Drew Lock, 1400 to 15.
This season Drew Lock holds the bigger snap share, 96 percent against 4 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
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