Should I start Joe Burrow or Jared Goff 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 Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 13th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Joe Burrow is 23.5 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 10 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jared Goff's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 208 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, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 298 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 298 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 7 against GB he completed 22 of 32 passes for 303 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

In Week 8 against MIN he completed 18 of 25 passes for 176 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 9 against MIA he completed 17 of 25 passes for 170 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

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 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.

Jared Goff was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Joe Burrow 17.4, 0.5 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 that year and Jared Goff QB9.

Jared Goff had 319 more pass attempts than Joe Burrow, 578 to 259.

Jared Goff had 2755 more passing yards than Joe Burrow, 4564 to 1809.

Their snap share this season is the same, 99 percent each.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

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.