Should I start Matthew Stafford or Jaxson Dart in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:46 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Matthew Stafford: Listed Questionable (Arm) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Matthew Stafford: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jaxson Dart's 60 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB32 · LAR · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 15.7 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 222
QB · NYG · bye 8
2025 vs pass td line 5-7
- Overall rank
- 242
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Stafford, and the board ranks him 222nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaxson Dart, and the board ranks him 242nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 16.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 0.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Jaxson Dart, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 98 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 316 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 45 of 316 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 6 against ARI he completed 25 of 33 passes for 222 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 7 against LV he completed 23 of 29 passes for 195 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception.
In Week 8 against LAC he completed 17 of 25 passes for 157 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
Through Week 2, Jaxson Dart has been on the field for 60 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 38 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 6 of 38 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against DAL he completed 23 of 29 passes for 230 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 59 yards.
In Week 2 against LAR he completed 3 of 5 passes for 20 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.
He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jaxson Dart played 14 games and scored 246.6 PPR points, 17.6 a game, finishing QB14.
He threw for 2272 yards on 339 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 487 yards and 9 touchdowns.
That came to 24.2 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Matthew Stafford was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Jaxson Dart 17.6, 3.5 a game between them.
Matthew Stafford finished QB3 that year and Jaxson Dart QB14.
Matthew Stafford had 258 more pass attempts than Jaxson Dart, 597 to 339.
Matthew Stafford had 2435 more passing yards than Jaxson Dart, 4707 to 2272.
This season Matthew Stafford holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 60 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Matthew Stafford is off in Week 11 and Jaxson Dart in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Matthew Stafford is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Jaxson Dart is listed as ir on the injury report.
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