Should I start Jonah Coleman or Geno Smith in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:41 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Geno Smith: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jonah Coleman's 52 percent of the snaps and 42 percent of the carries. 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.
RB40 · DEN · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 130
QB28 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 6-2
- Market-based projection
- 14.0 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 Jonah Coleman, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Geno Smith, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jonah Coleman is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Geno Smith's market-based projection is 14.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.
Jonah Coleman's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jonah Coleman has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 6 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against JAX he carried 10 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 9 times for 54 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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
Jonah Coleman 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.
Side by side
Jonah Coleman is a running back and Geno Smith a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jonah Coleman is off in Week 10 and Geno Smith in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jonah Coleman 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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