Jalen Hurts or Tony Pollard: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Jalen Hurts at 19.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 8th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

The player markets price Tony Pollard at 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 books. That is the 95th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tony Pollard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 89.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 1 against WAS he completed 14 of 25 passes for 203 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 48 yards.

In Week 2 against TEN he completed 26 of 37 passes for 264 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 5 times for 16 yards.

Through Week 2, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 53 percent of TEN snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 13 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 1 against NYJ he carried 7 times for 35 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against PHI he carried 14 times for 64 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 1 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.

He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.

That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.

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

In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tony Pollard was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Tony Pollard 10.9, 8.1 a game between them.

Jalen Hurts finished QB8 and Tony Pollard RB23, which are two different ladders.

Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Tony Pollard a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10 and Tony Pollard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Tony Pollard is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

9.1 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.