Should I start Kyle Juszczyk or Sam Darnold in Week 7?
Updated Oct 23, 6:21 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Sam Darnold: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kyle Juszczyk's 51 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the carries. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB36 · SF · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 112
QB17 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 15.1 pts a game
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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 Kyle Juszczyk, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Sam Darnold, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kyle Juszczyk is 6.0 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Sam Darnold's market-based projection is 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.
Kyle Juszczyk's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Kyle Juszczyk has been on the field for 49 percent of SF snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against WAS he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 86 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 166 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 166 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 4 against LAC he completed 13 of 22 passes for 168 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 8 yards.
In Week 5 against SF he completed 18 of 29 passes for 195 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Kyle Juszczyk in the last completed season.
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.
Side by side
Kyle Juszczyk is a running back and Sam Darnold a quarterback, 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. No bye is listed for Kyle Juszczyk.
What would change the answer
Kyle Juszczyk has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
- Is Kyle Juszczyk playing Week 7?
- Is Sam Darnold playing Week 7?
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- Week 7 fantasy rankings
- Week 7 start or sit
- Week 7 waiver wire
- Week 7 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 7
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 7 kicker rankings
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