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Should I start Shedeur Sanders or Fernando Mendoza in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 3:21 PM ET.

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Start Shedeur Sanders: 37 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.

Shedeur Sanders

QB9 · CLE · bye 11

2025 vs pass td line 2-6

Market-based projection
12.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
29

Fernando Mendoza

QB10 · LV · bye 13

Market-based projection
10.5 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 Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 29th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Fernando Mendoza, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

Fernando Mendoza's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 9, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 37 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 45 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 45 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

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.

In Week 9 against NO he completed 19 of 30 passes for 297 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 9 times for 29 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 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.

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

Head to head

This season Shedeur Sanders holds the bigger snap share, 37 percent against 17 percent.

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

Byes and availability

Shedeur Sanders is off in Week 11 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Shedeur Sanders 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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