Should I start Josh Allen or Jadarian Price in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Josh Allen's market-based projection is 22.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Jadarian Price's market-based projection is 10.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jadarian Price, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Josh Allen has been on the field for 99 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 237 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 237 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.

In Week 8 against BAL he completed 21 of 34 passes for 289 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 7 times for 30 yards.

Through Week 8, Jadarian Price has been on the field for 36 percent of SEA snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 4.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against ARI he carried 13 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against WAS he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 10 times for 29 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jadarian Price is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Josh Allen is a quarterback and Jadarian Price a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Josh Allen is off in Week 7 and Jadarian Price in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

12.5 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.