Should I start Quentin Johnston or J.J. McCarthy in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 3:31 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Quentin Johnston: 80 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against J.J. McCarthy's 42 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.
WR38 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 7.0 pts a game
QB19 · NYG · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 4-6
- Overall rank
- 110
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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 Quentin Johnston, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Quentin Johnston's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 107th highest figure of the 224 players with a market-based projection.
The market has J.J. McCarthy at 15.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
J.J. McCarthy's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Quentin Johnston has been on the field for 81 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 13.0 air yards.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 44 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against KC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 57 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against LAR he caught 4 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 42 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 49 times and thrown 11.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 49 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 5 against WAS he completed 0 of 0 passes for 0 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Quentin Johnston played 14 games and scored 171.2 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR34.
He caught 51 of 85 targets for 735 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Quentin Johnston was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 J.J. McCarthy scored 13.7 PPR points a game and Quentin Johnston 12.2, 1.5 a game between them.
Quentin Johnston finished WR34 and J.J. McCarthy QB30, which are two different ladders.
Quentin Johnston is a wide receiver and J.J. McCarthy a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Quentin Johnston is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.
What would change the answer
J.J. McCarthy has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Quentin Johnston playing Week 9?
- Is J.J. McCarthy playing Week 9?
- Chargers depth chart
- Giants depth chart
- Week 9 QB rankings
- Week 9 WR rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
