Should I start Jared Goff or Justin Jefferson in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 8th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justin Jefferson, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 4; 2QB: ADP 15.

The market-based projections

Jared Goff's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 8th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Justin Jefferson is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

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.

Through Week 9, Justin Jefferson has been on the field for 80 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 21 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against IND he caught 4 of 7 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DET he caught 5 of 9 targets for 33 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against BUF he caught 3 of 11 targets for 58 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 Justin Jefferson played 17 games and scored 201.5 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR21.

He caught 84 of 141 targets for 1048 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 8.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 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 Justin Jefferson 11.9, 6.1 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 and Justin Jefferson WR21, which are two different ladders.

Jared Goff is a quarterback and Justin Jefferson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

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

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