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Should I start Shedeur Sanders or Justin Herbert in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 2:31 AM ET.

Start Justin Herbert: 100 percent of the snaps and 1 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 1 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Shedeur Sanders

QB · CLE · bye 11

2025 vs pass td line 2-6

Overall rank
247

Justin Herbert

QB · LAC · on bye this week

2026 vs pass yds line 2-4

Market-based projection
14.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
253

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 247th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justin Herbert, and the board ranks him 253rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Justin Herbert, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

Through Week 3, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 1 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 1 time and thrown -4.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 0 of 1 dropback.

In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

Through Week 6, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 219 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 44 of 219 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.

He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26-27 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Justin Herbert was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Shedeur Sanders 11.9, 6.9 a game between them.

Shedeur Sanders finished QB37 that year and Justin Herbert QB10.

Justin Herbert had 300 more pass attempts than Shedeur Sanders, 512 to 212.

Justin Herbert had 2327 more passing yards than Shedeur Sanders, 3727 to 1400.

This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 1 percent.

This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Shedeur Sanders is off in Week 11 and Justin Herbert in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

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