Isiah Pacheco or Shedeur Sanders: who should I start?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 11:46 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB56 · DET · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 2-11
- Overall rank
- 226
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
QB35 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Overall rank
- 227
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Isiah Pacheco: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 163.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Shedeur Sanders: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 227th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 179.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Isiah Pacheco, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market pricing 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Isiah Pacheco played 13 games and scored 87.3 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing RB56.
He carried 118 times for 462 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 19 of 26 targets for 101 more yards.
That came to 9.1 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 1.5 catches a game.
He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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 26.5 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.
Isiah Pacheco was available for 5 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Shedeur Sanders scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Isiah Pacheco 6.7, 5.1 a game between them.
Isiah Pacheco finished RB56 and Shedeur Sanders QB37, which are two different ladders.
Isiah Pacheco is a running back and Shedeur Sanders a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Isiah Pacheco is off in Week 6 and Shedeur Sanders in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Isiah Pacheco is listed as ir on the injury report.
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