Should I start Trevor Lawrence or Jordan Love in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Trevor Lawrence's market-based projection is 17.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 17.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trevor Lawrence, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Trevor Lawrence has been on the field for 95 percent of JAX snaps, dropped back 219 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 219 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 5 against PHI he completed 24 of 39 passes for 331 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

In Week 6 against HOU he completed 24 of 41 passes for 306 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 8 against IND he completed 10 of 14 passes for 210 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 10 yards.

Through Week 8, Jordan Love has been on the field for 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 327 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 52 of 327 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 6 against DAL he completed 23 of 41 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

In Week 7 against DET he completed 27 of 45 passes for 274 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 8 against CAR he completed 30 of 41 passes for 288 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence played 17 games and scored 350.2 PPR points, 20.6 a game, finishing QB4.

He threw for 4007 yards on 560 attempts with 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 359 yards and 9 touchdowns.

That came to 32.9 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 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.

Trevor Lawrence was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence scored 20.6 PPR points a game and Jordan Love 16.1, 4.5 a game between them.

Trevor Lawrence finished QB4 that year and Jordan Love QB15.

Trevor Lawrence had 121 more pass attempts than Jordan Love, 560 to 439.

Trevor Lawrence had 626 more passing yards than Jordan Love, 4007 to 3381.

This season Jordan Love holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 95 percent.

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

Byes and availability

Trevor Lawrence is off in Week 7 and Jordan Love in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.1 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.