Should I start Joe Fagnano or Jaylen Waddle in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 10:21 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Joe Fagnano: 78 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jaylen Waddle's 55 percent of the snaps and 26 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.
Parlae may earn a commission from price links.
Your next move
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB10 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 25
WR9 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 11.3 pts a game
Make this call for your own roster
Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.
Or get it by email
Tuesday 7am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.
Free. One a week, one tap to stop.
The gap
- Board size301 draftable players
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 Joe Fagnano, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 10.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.
Joe Fagnano's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Joe Fagnano has been on the field for 78 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 25 times and thrown 4.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 25 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 10 of 21 passes for 91 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
Through Week 8, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 63 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 51 targets have averaged 9.8 air yards.
In Week 6 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against ARI he caught 4 of 7 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.
He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Joe Fagnano is a quarterback and Jaylen Waddle a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Joe Fagnano.
Joe Fagnano is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Joe Fagnano has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Joe Fagnano playing Week 9?
- Is Jaylen Waddle playing Week 9?
- Ravens depth chart
- Broncos depth chart
- Week 9 QB rankings
- Week 9 WR rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
