Lamar Jackson 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 3:01 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Lamar Jackson 5.3 points a game ahead of Jared Goff this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the books' price is the live market on these two.
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QB2 · BAL · bye 13
2025 vs pass yds line 5-8
- Books price
- 21.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB17 · DET · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Books price
- 16.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference5.3 points a game
- 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.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Lamar Jackson at 21.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 176 players the books price.
The player markets price Jared Goff at 16.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 27th highest figure of the 176 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Lamar Jackson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 8.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jared Goff: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 100 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 66 times and thrown 10.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 66 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 1 against IND he completed 17 of 24 passes for 324 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 43 yards.
In Week 2 against NO he completed 21 of 30 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 34 yards.
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 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.
He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 92 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 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Lamar Jackson 17.1, 0.9 a game between them.
Lamar Jackson finished QB20 that year and Jared Goff QB9.
Jared Goff had 276 more pass attempts than Lamar Jackson, 578 to 302.
Jared Goff had 2015 more passing yards than Lamar Jackson, 4564 to 2549.
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
Lamar Jackson is off in Week 13 and Jared Goff in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
5.3 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.
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