Should I start Joe Fagnano or Geno Smith in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 1:24 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start Geno Smith over Joe Fagnano
- Market projects
- 13.7
- recent weeks avg
- KC D vs QB
- 13.9
- 6th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 10.8
- fantasy pts
- JAX D vs QB
- 15.6
- 9th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 78%
- Through Week 8
Start Geno Smith: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Joe Fagnano's 78 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.
QB14 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 199
QB29 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 6-2
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 214
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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 Joe Fagnano, and the board ranks him 199th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Geno Smith, and the board ranks him 214th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 10.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Geno Smith is 0.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Joe Fagnano's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Joe Fagnano has been on the field for 78 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 25 times and thrown 4.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 25 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 10 of 21 passes for 91 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
Through Week 8, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 272 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 272 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 6 against NE he completed 20 of 30 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
In Week 7 against MIA he completed 23 of 30 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against LV he completed 20 of 32 passes for 290 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.
He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Geno Smith holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 78 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Geno Smith is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Joe Fagnano.
Joe Fagnano is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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