Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Matthew Stafford 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 Matthew Stafford, and the board ranks him 182nd 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.

The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 0.4 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.

Matthew Stafford'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, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 98 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 360 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 50 of 360 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 7 against LV he completed 23 of 29 passes for 195 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 8 against LAC he completed 17 of 25 passes for 157 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.

In Week 9 against WAS he completed 26 of 42 passes for 228 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 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 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.

He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Matthew Stafford was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and J.J. McCarthy 13.7, 7.3 a game between them.

J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 that year and Matthew Stafford QB3.

Matthew Stafford had 354 more pass attempts than J.J. McCarthy, 597 to 243.

Matthew Stafford had 3075 more passing yards than J.J. McCarthy, 4707 to 1632.

This season Matthew Stafford holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 49 percent.

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

Byes and availability

Matthew Stafford 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

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