Should I start Jeremy McNichols or Kyler Murray in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Jeremy McNichols: Questionable to IR (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jeremy McNichols: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Kyler Murray: Listed Questionable (Hamstring) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Kyler Murray: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 19 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the carries. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB31 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 96
QB16 · MIN · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 16.5 pts a game
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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 Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyler Murray, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jeremy McNichols, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Kyler Murray's market-based projection is 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 86 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 184 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 184 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.
In Week 5 against NO he completed 24 of 29 passes for 229 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 54 yards.
In Week 7 against IND he completed 14 of 24 passes for 150 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 41 yards.
In Week 8 against DET he completed 17 of 29 passes for 210 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 36 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.
That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.
He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jeremy McNichols was available for 12 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Kyler Murray scored 16.2 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 11.9 a game between them.
Jeremy McNichols finished RB58 and Kyler Murray QB38, which are two different ladders.
Jeremy McNichols is a running back and Kyler Murray a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jeremy McNichols is off in Week 7 and Kyler Murray in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.
Kyler Murray is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jeremy McNichols has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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