Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Joe Fagnano in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 10:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : J.J. McCarthy: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Rookie Joe Fagnano to start Thursday night vs. Jaguars, Jesse Minter says (ESPN)
Start Joe Fagnano: 90 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against J.J. McCarthy's 68 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB6 · NYG · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 4-6
- Market-based projection
- 16.0 pts a game
QB8 · BAL · bye 13
- Market-based projection
- 8.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 22
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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 J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Fagnano, and the board ranks him 22nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
J.J. McCarthy's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Joe Fagnano, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 49 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 11.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 6 against NO he completed 11 of 17 passes for 243 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 26 yards.
In Week 7 against HOU he completed 20 of 27 passes for 252 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 9 against PHI he completed 12 of 19 passes for 127 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 23 yards.
Through Week 9, Joe Fagnano has been on the field for 90 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 45 times and thrown 3.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 45 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
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.
In Week 9 against JAX he completed 10 of 18 passes for 60 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 13 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 J.J. McCarthy played 10 games and scored 137.4 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB30.
He threw for 1632 yards on 243 attempts with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 181 yards and 4 touchdowns.
That came to 24.3 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Joe Fagnano holds the bigger snap share, 90 percent against 49 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Joe Fagnano is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.
J.J. McCarthy is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Joe Fagnano has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
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