Should I start Jared Goff or Jake Ferguson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jared Goff is 19.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 194 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 207 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 207 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 3 against NYJ he completed 25 of 32 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

In Week 4 against CAR he completed 32 of 52 passes for 412 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against ARI he completed 19 of 30 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

Through Week 6, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 68 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.

He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

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

In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

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

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Jake Ferguson 11.1, 6.9 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 and Jake Ferguson TE5, which are two different ladders.

Jared Goff is a quarterback and Jake Ferguson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Jake Ferguson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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