Should I start Jacoby Brissett or Tyler Warren in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacoby Brissett, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Warren, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jacoby Brissett is 18.5 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 10 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Tyler Warren's market-based projection is 9.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Jacoby Brissett's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 100 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 302 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 51 of 302 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 5 against DET he completed 29 of 46 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 19 yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he completed 24 of 35 passes for 218 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

In Week 7 against DEN he completed 27 of 48 passes for 272 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 16 yards.

Through Week 5, Tyler Warren has been on the field for 91 percent of IND snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against HOU he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 9 of 10 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against WAS he caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 83 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jacoby Brissett played 14 games and scored 235.4 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB16.

He threw for 3366 yards on 485 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 168 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 34.6 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyler Warren played 17 games and scored 188.5 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE4.

He caught 76 of 112 targets for 817 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tyler Warren was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jacoby Brissett scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Tyler Warren 11.1, 5.7 a game between them.

Jacoby Brissett finished QB16 and Tyler Warren TE4, which are two different ladders.

Jacoby Brissett is a quarterback and Tyler Warren a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jacoby Brissett is off in Week 14 and Tyler Warren in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Tyler Warren is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jacoby Brissett has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.