Should I start Jared Goff or Zach Charbonnet in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jared Goff is 18.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Zach Charbonnet's market-based projection is 9.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 232 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 269 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 41 of 269 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 5 against ARI he completed 19 of 30 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

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.

Through Week 8, Zach Charbonnet has been on the field for 37 percent of SEA snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 6 times for 23 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 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 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jared Goff was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Zach Charbonnet 11.3, 6.6 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 and Zach Charbonnet RB24, which are two different ladders.

Jared Goff is a quarterback and Zach Charbonnet a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Zach Charbonnet in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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