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Should I start Fernando Mendoza or Lamar Jackson in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 8:16 PM ET.

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  • : Lamar Jackson: Out to IR (Thumb, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Lamar Jackson: 55 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 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.

QB33 · LV · bye 13

Market-based projection
9.7 pts a game

QB · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 3-2

Overall rank
250

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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 Fernando Mendoza, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Lamar Jackson, and the board ranks him 250th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 3.

The market-based projections

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.

No season market is posted for Lamar Jackson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 8, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 73 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 112 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 112 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 3 against DAL he completed 15 of 20 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 50 yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 20 yards.

In Week 8 against BUF he completed 0 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.

He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 92 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Lamar Jackson holds the bigger snap share, 73 percent against 17 percent.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Lamar Jackson is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Lamar Jackson 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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