Should I start Jeremy McNichols or Sam Darnold in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:41 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Coach: Seahawks QB Sam Darnold ruled out with quad injury, is week-to-week (ESPN)
- : Sam Darnold: Listed Out (Quadriceps) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jeremy McNichols: Questionable to IR (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Sam Darnold: 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.
RB36 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 119
QB24 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Market-based projection
- 15.5 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 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Sam Darnold, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.
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.
Sam Darnold's market-based projection is 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 37th highest figure of the 225 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, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 90 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 235 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 45 of 235 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 6 against DEN he completed 27 of 49 passes for 278 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 19 yards.
In Week 7 against KC he completed 20 of 28 passes for 257 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
In Week 8 against CHI he completed 17 of 34 passes for 188 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 20 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 Sam Darnold played 17 games and scored 249.4 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing QB13.
He threw for 4048 yards on 477 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and ran for 95 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 28.1 attempts a game at 9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Sam Darnold scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 10.4 a game between them.
Jeremy McNichols finished RB58 and Sam Darnold QB13, which are two different ladders.
Jeremy McNichols is a running back and Sam Darnold 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 Sam Darnold in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.
Sam Darnold is listed as out 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
Week 9 on the board
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