Joe Burrow or Jared Goff: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 2:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Jared Goff, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB16 · CIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 2-6
- Books price
- 16.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB17 · DET · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Overall rank
- 102
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jared Goff: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Joe Burrow at 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 27th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The books have Jared Goff at 16.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 17 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Jared Goff's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 73 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 73 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against TB he completed 25 of 35 passes for 254 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 21 yards.
In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Through Week 2, Jared Goff has been on the field for 100 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 85 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 85 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 1 against NO he completed 26 of 39 passes for 206 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 2 against BUF he completed 26 of 38 passes for 327 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 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, 100 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
Jared Goff is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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