Should I start Joe Burrow or Jahmyr Gibbs in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 1st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahmyr Gibbs, and the board ranks him 2nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Joe Burrow is 23.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 5 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jahmyr Gibbs's market-based projection is 24.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 1st highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 99 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 321 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 57 of 321 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 7 against BAL he completed 22 of 30 passes for 292 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 8 against TEN he completed 38 of 48 passes for 462 yards, threw 5 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 3 times for 10 yards.

In Week 9 against ATL he completed 24 of 29 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 9, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 77 percent of DET snaps, taken 79 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 52 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 15 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 45 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against GB he carried 29 times for 116 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIN he carried 23 times for 153 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against MIA he carried 20 times for 74 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs played 17 games and scored 366.9 PPR points, 21.6 a game, finishing RB3.

He carried 243 times for 1223 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 77 of 94 targets for 616 more yards.

That came to 14.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 4-5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jahmyr Gibbs was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and Joe Burrow 17.4, 4.1 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 and Jahmyr Gibbs RB3, which are two different ladders.

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and Jahmyr Gibbs a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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