Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Treylon Burks in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Treylon Burks, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Treylon Burks's market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 224 players with a market-based 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 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.

Through Week 8, Treylon Burks has been on the field for 52 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 17.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 2 of 5 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 4 of 6 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 81 yards and did not score.

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 Treylon Burks played 8 games and scored 29.0 PPR points, 3.6 a game, finishing WR138.

He caught 10 of 22 targets for 130 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

J.J. McCarthy was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 J.J. McCarthy scored 13.7 PPR points a game and Treylon Burks 3.6, 10.1 a game between them.

J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 and Treylon Burks WR138, which are two different ladders.

J.J. McCarthy is a quarterback and Treylon Burks a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Treylon Burks 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.