Should I start Josh Allen or Jahan Dotson in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

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

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Allen is 5.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 40th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

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

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, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 68 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 95 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.

In 2025 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.

He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Jahan Dotson 3.0, 19.1 a game between them.

Josh Allen finished QB1 and Jahan Dotson WR109, which are two different ladders.

Josh Allen is a quarterback and Jahan Dotson a wide receiver, 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 Jahan Dotson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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