Justin Herbert or Jordan Love: who should I start?
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 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Justin Herbert 0.7 points a game ahead of Jordan Love 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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QB9 · LAC · bye 7
2025 vs pass yds line 6-10
- Books price
- 17.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB12 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 6-9
- Books price
- 16.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.7 points a game
- Board size242 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 Justin Herbert at 17.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 17th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
The player markets price Jordan Love at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 26.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 60.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 35 times and thrown 10.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 35 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 1 against ARI he completed 17 of 27 passes for 209 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 29 yards.
Through Week 1, Jordan Love has been on the field for 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 46 times and thrown 11.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 46 dropbacks.
In Week 1 against MIN he completed 21 of 42 passes for 387 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.
He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Justin Herbert was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Jordan Love 16.1, 2.7 a game between them.
Justin Herbert finished QB10 that year and Jordan Love QB15.
Justin Herbert had 73 more pass attempts than Jordan Love, 512 to 439.
Justin Herbert had 346 more passing yards than Jordan Love, 3727 to 3381.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Justin Herbert is off in Week 7 and Jordan Love in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.7 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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