Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Jordan Love in Week 10?

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 Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

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.

The market-based projection for Jordan Love is 0.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jordan Love's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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, Jordan Love has been on the field for 98 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 360 times and thrown 9.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 56 of 360 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.

In Week 7 against DET he completed 27 of 45 passes for 274 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 8 against CAR he completed 30 of 41 passes for 288 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 9 against NE he completed 23 of 29 passes for 372 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time 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.

In 2025 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.

He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jordan Love was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and J.J. McCarthy 13.7, 2.3 a game between them.

J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 that year and Jordan Love QB15.

Jordan Love had 196 more pass attempts than J.J. McCarthy, 439 to 243.

Jordan Love had 1749 more passing yards than J.J. McCarthy, 3381 to 1632.

This season Jordan Love holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 49 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Jordan Love is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.

J.J. McCarthy is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jordan Love has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.