Should I start Tanner McKee or Gardner Minshew II in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 2:36 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Tanner McKee: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Gardner Minshew II's 42 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.
QB27 · PHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 197
QB28 · ARI · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 9.4 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 Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 197th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Gardner Minshew II, and the board ranks him 218th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 10.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Gardner Minshew II's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 224 players with a market-based projection.
Tanner McKee's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 129 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 22 of 129 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
In Week 7 against DAL he completed 23 of 35 passes for 211 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against WAS he completed 23 of 34 passes for 212 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
Through Week 8, Gardner Minshew II has been on the field for 42 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 21 times and thrown 6.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 21 dropbacks.
In Week 8 against DAL he completed 17 of 20 passes for 188 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.
He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 3 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.
Both were available for 4 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Tanner McKee scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Gardner Minshew II 0.2, 3.5 a game between them.
Tanner McKee finished QB55 that year and Gardner Minshew II QB72.
Tanner McKee had 30 more pass attempts than Gardner Minshew II, 43 to 13.
Tanner McKee had 237 more passing yards than Gardner Minshew II, 274 to 37.
This season Tanner McKee holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 42 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Tanner McKee is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Gardner Minshew II.
What would change the answer
Tanner McKee has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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- Eagles depth chart
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- Week 9 QB rankings
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- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
