Should I start Joe Fagnano or Justin Herbert in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start Justin Herbert over Joe Fagnano
- Market projects
- 12.9
- recent weeks avg
- HOU D vs QB
- 18.5
- 13th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 10.9
- fantasy pts
- JAX D vs QB
- 15.6
- 9th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 78%
- Through Week 8
Start Justin Herbert: he has been on the field this season, 100 percent of the snaps, and Joe Fagnano has no snap on record yet. 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB11 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 41
QB22 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Market-based projection
- 16.2 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 202
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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 Joe Fagnano, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Justin Herbert, and the board ranks him 202nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 10.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Justin Herbert is 1.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Joe Fagnano'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 Fagnano has dropped back 25 times and thrown 4.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 25 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 10 of 21 passes for 91 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
Through Week 8, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 255 times and thrown 7.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 48 of 255 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.
In Week 5 against DEN he completed 14 of 23 passes for 121 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 54 yards.
In Week 6 against KC he completed 22 of 37 passes for 204 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 26 yards.
In Week 8 against LAR he completed 24 of 31 passes for 257 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 4 times for 15 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.
He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Justin Herbert is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Joe Fagnano.
Joe Fagnano is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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