Should I start Justice Hill or Josh Allen in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justice Hill, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

The market-based projections

Justice Hill's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Allen is 5.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Josh Allen's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Justice Hill has been on the field for 43 percent of BAL snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he carried 3 times for 15 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Josh Allen has been on the field for 99 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 237 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 237 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.

In Week 8 against BAL he completed 21 of 34 passes for 289 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 7 times for 30 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Justice Hill played 10 games and scored 65.2 PPR points, 6.5 a game, finishing RB60.

He carried 18 times for 93 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 21 of 27 targets for 169 more yards.

That came to 1.8 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Allen was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Justice Hill 6.5, 15.5 a game between them.

Justice Hill finished RB60 and Josh Allen QB1, which are two different ladders.

Justice Hill is a running back and Josh Allen a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Justice Hill is off in Week 13 and Josh Allen in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Justice Hill is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Josh Allen has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.