Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Shedeur Sanders in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 9:16 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start J.J. McCarthy: 68 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 37 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.
QB5 · NYG · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 4-6
- Market-based projection
- 16.0 pts a game
QB9 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 12.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 17
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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 9th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 17th 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 6th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, 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, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 37 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 45 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 45 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 8 against PIT he completed 2 of 2 passes for 2 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 9 against NO he completed 19 of 30 passes for 297 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 9 times for 29 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 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.
He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26-27 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
J.J. McCarthy was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 J.J. McCarthy scored 13.7 PPR points a game and Shedeur Sanders 11.9, 1.9 a game between them.
J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 that year and Shedeur Sanders QB37.
J.J. McCarthy had 31 more pass attempts than Shedeur Sanders, 243 to 212.
J.J. McCarthy had 232 more passing yards than Shedeur Sanders, 1632 to 1400.
This season J.J. McCarthy holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 37 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Shedeur Sanders 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
Shedeur Sanders 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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- Is Shedeur Sanders playing Week 10?
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