Should I start Joe Burrow or Rome Odunze in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Joe Burrow's market-based projection is 21.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 8th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Rome Odunze's market-based projection is 10.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rome Odunze, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Rome Odunze has been on the field for 85 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 2 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 44 targets have averaged 14.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against SEA he caught 4 of 6 targets for 87 yards and did not score.

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 Rome Odunze played 12 games and scored 146.1 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR41.

He caught 44 of 90 targets for 661 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 15.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rome Odunze was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Rome Odunze 12.2, 5.3 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 and Rome Odunze WR41, which are two different ladders.

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and Rome Odunze a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Rome Odunze in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

10.5 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.