Should I start Jalen Hurts or Tua Tagovailoa in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 3:46 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jalen Hurts: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tua Tagovailoa's 5 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 255
QB · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 5-9
- Overall rank
- 276
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Hurts, and the board ranks him 255th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tua Tagovailoa, and the board ranks him 276th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jalen Hurts, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Tua Tagovailoa, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
Through Week 5, Tua Tagovailoa has been on the field for 5 percent of ATL snaps, dropped back 3 times and thrown 9.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 0 of 3 dropbacks.
In Week 5 against BAL he completed 2 of 3 passes for 34 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception.
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 Tua Tagovailoa played 14 games and scored 175.7 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing QB25.
He threw for 2660 yards on 384 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 15 interceptions, and ran for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 27.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalen Hurts was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Tua Tagovailoa 12.5, 6.5 a game between them.
Jalen Hurts finished QB8 that year and Tua Tagovailoa QB25.
Jalen Hurts had 70 more pass attempts than Tua Tagovailoa, 454 to 384.
Jalen Hurts had 564 more passing yards than Tua Tagovailoa, 3224 to 2660.
This season Jalen Hurts holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 5 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10 and Tua Tagovailoa in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jalen Hurts is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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