Sam Darnold or LA Rams Defense: who should I start?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 11:31 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB30 · SEA · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 194
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
DEF1 · LAR · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 195
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 1
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Sam Darnold: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 63.
Drafters have formed no consensus on LA Rams Defense: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 195th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 130.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Sam Darnold, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for LA Rams Defense, so the only market pricing 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 through Week 1
Through Week 1, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 10 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 3 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 3 dropbacks.
In Week 1 against NE he completed 1 of 2 passes for 13 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for LA Rams Defense this season.
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 8.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for LA Rams Defense in the last completed season.
Side by side
Sam Darnold is a quarterback and LA Rams Defense a defense, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Sam Darnold is listed as out on the injury report.
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