Should I start Jahmyr Gibbs or Josh Allen in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

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.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

The market-based projections

Jahmyr Gibbs's market-based projection is 24.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 1st highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Allen is 5.9 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.

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

This season through Week 9

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.

Through Week 9, Josh Allen has been on the field for 99 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 273 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 42 of 273 dropbacks and scrambled 20 times.

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.

In Week 9 against MIN he completed 21 of 31 passes for 234 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 16 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Jahmyr Gibbs 21.6, 0.5 a game between them.

Jahmyr Gibbs finished RB3 and Josh Allen QB1, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Jahmyr Gibbs is off in Week 6 and Josh Allen in Week 7, 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.