Should I start Josh Allen or Rachaad White in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Josh Allen's market-based projection is 22.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Rachaad White's market-based projection is 12.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

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.

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

This season through Week 8

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.

Through Week 8, Rachaad White has been on the field for 52 percent of WAS snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 3 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 7 times for 27 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 11 times for 55 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Rachaad White played 17 games and scored 143.0 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB32.

He carried 132 times for 572 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 218 more yards.

That came to 7.8 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

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

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Rachaad White 8.4, 13.6 a game between them.

Josh Allen finished QB1 and Rachaad White RB32, which are two different ladders.

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

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

9.4 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.