Should I start Sam Darnold or Kendre Miller in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sam Darnold, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Sam Darnold's market-based projection is 15.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kendre Miller is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 89 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 235 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 45 of 235 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 6 against DEN he completed 27 of 49 passes for 278 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 19 yards.

In Week 7 against KC he completed 20 of 28 passes for 257 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 17 yards.

In Week 8 against CHI he completed 17 of 34 passes for 188 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 20 yards.

Through Week 7, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 31 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PIT he carried 8 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Sam Darnold played 17 games and scored 249.4 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing QB13.

He threw for 4048 yards on 477 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and ran for 95 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 28.1 attempts a game at 9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Sam Darnold was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Sam Darnold scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 9.9 a game between them.

Sam Darnold finished QB13 and Kendre Miller RB79, which are two different ladders.

Sam Darnold is a quarterback and Kendre Miller a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Sam Darnold is off in Week 11 and Kendre Miller in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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