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Should I start Gardner Minshew II or Fernando Mendoza in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 9:41 PM ET.

Start Gardner Minshew II: 65 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 2 games, against Fernando Mendoza's 17 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Gardner Minshew II

QB30 · ARI · bye 14

Market-based projection
11.5 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
162

Fernando Mendoza

QB33 · LV · bye 13

Market-based projection
9.7 pts a game

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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 Gardner Minshew II, and the board ranks him 162nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Fernando Mendoza, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Gardner Minshew II, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Fernando Mendoza's market-based projection is 9.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 88th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 9, Gardner Minshew II has been on the field for 65 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 54 times and thrown 6.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 5 of 54 dropbacks.

In Week 8 against DAL he completed 17 of 20 passes for 188 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 9 against SEA he completed 21 of 30 passes for 166 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 4 yards.

Through Week 5, Fernando Mendoza has been on the field for 17 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 9 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 9 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 6 of 8 passes for 48 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Gardner Minshew II played 4 games and scored 0.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing QB72.

He threw for 37 yards on 13 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, and ran for 2 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 3.3 attempts a game at 2.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Gardner Minshew II holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 17 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Gardner Minshew II is off in Week 14 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Gardner Minshew II is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Gardner Minshew II has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

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