Should I start Joe Fagnano or Tyler Shough in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 9:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.

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Nov 3, 4:20 PM ET: Rookie Joe Fagnano to start Thursday night vs. Jaguars, Jesse Minter says (ESPN)

Start Tyler Shough: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Joe Fagnano's 78 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. 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.

Joe Fagnano

QB26 · BAL · bye unlisted

Overall rank: 216

Tyler Shough

QB28 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 5-2

Overall rank: 219

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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 216th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Shough, and the board ranks him 219th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 9.1 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.

The market-based projection for Tyler Shough is 1.4 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 so far

Through Week 8, Joe Fagnano has been on the field for 78 percent of BAL snaps, 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 7, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 296 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 42 of 296 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 5 against MIN he completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 6 against NYG he completed 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 33 yards.

In Week 7 against PIT he completed 30 of 38 passes for 278 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 7 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Tyler Shough holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 78 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Tyler Shough is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Joe Fagnano.

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