Kyler Murray or Joe Burrow: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 2:16 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Kyler Murray 0.1 points a game ahead of Joe Burrow this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the books' price is the live market on these two.
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QB15 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 0-5
- Books price
- 16.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB16 · CIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 2-6
- Books price
- 16.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.1 points a game
- Board size230 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Kyler Murray at 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 26th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The player markets price Joe Burrow at 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 27th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyler Murray: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 46.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.
This season so far
Through Week 1, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 17 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 7 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 7 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against GB he completed 3 of 5 passes for 18 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 9 yards.
Through Week 2, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 73 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 73 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against TB he completed 25 of 35 passes for 254 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 21 yards.
In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.
He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Joe Burrow was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Kyler Murray 16.2, 1.3 a game between them.
Kyler Murray finished QB38 that year and Joe Burrow QB29.
Joe Burrow had 98 more pass attempts than Kyler Murray, 259 to 161.
Joe Burrow had 847 more passing yards than Kyler Murray, 1809 to 962.
This season Joe Burrow holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
What would change the answer
0.1 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.
The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.
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