Should I start Justin Herbert or Josh Allen in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justin Herbert, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 201st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

The market-based projections

Justin Herbert's market-based projection is 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 5 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Allen is 5.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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, 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.

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 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 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 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Justin Herbert 18.7, 3.3 a game between them.

Justin Herbert finished QB10 that year and Josh Allen QB1.

Justin Herbert had 52 more pass attempts than Josh Allen, 512 to 460.

Justin Herbert had 59 more passing yards than Josh Allen, 3727 to 3668.

This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 99 percent.

This season Josh Allen holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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.