Should I start Shedeur Sanders or Gardner Minshew II in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 8:06 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Gardner Minshew II: 65 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 37 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.
QB26 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 12.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 146
QB28 · ARI · bye 14
- Market-based projection
- 11.5 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 160
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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 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Gardner Minshew II, and the board ranks him 160th 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.
No season market is posted for Gardner Minshew II, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 9
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 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.
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.
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.
Shedeur Sanders was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Shedeur Sanders scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Gardner Minshew II 0.2, 11.7 a game between them.
Shedeur Sanders finished QB37 that year and Gardner Minshew II QB72.
Shedeur Sanders had 199 more pass attempts than Gardner Minshew II, 212 to 13.
Shedeur Sanders had 1363 more passing yards than Gardner Minshew II, 1400 to 37.
This season Gardner Minshew II holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 37 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Shedeur Sanders is off in Week 11 and Gardner Minshew II in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Gardner Minshew II is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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