Should I start Joe Burrow or Josh Allen in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 38th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Joe Burrow is 23.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Josh Allen's market-based projection is 22.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 99 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 289 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 51 of 289 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 5 against MIA he completed 23 of 32 passes for 190 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he completed 22 of 30 passes for 292 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 8 against TEN he completed 38 of 48 passes for 462 yards, threw 5 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 3 times for 10 yards.

Through Week 8, Josh Allen has been on the field for 99 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 237 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 237 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.

In Week 8 against BAL he completed 21 of 34 passes for 289 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 7 times for 30 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Allen was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Joe Burrow 17.4, 4.6 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 that year and Josh Allen QB1.

Josh Allen had 201 more pass attempts than Joe Burrow, 460 to 259.

Josh Allen had 1859 more passing yards than Joe Burrow, 3668 to 1809.

Their snap share this season is the same, 99 percent each.

This season Josh Allen holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Josh Allen in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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