Should I start Trevor Lawrence or Ladd McConkey in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Trevor Lawrence's market-based projection is 18.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 16th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Ladd McConkey's market-based projection is 9.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trevor Lawrence, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ladd McConkey, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 2; standard: ADP 14; 2QB: ADP 35.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Trevor Lawrence has been on the field for 97 percent of JAX snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 4 against CIN he completed 18 of 23 passes for 227 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he completed 24 of 39 passes for 331 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

In Week 6 against HOU he completed 24 of 41 passes for 306 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

Through Week 6, Ladd McConkey has been on the field for 46 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 4 of 5 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against KC he caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence played 17 games and scored 350.2 PPR points, 20.6 a game, finishing QB4.

He threw for 4007 yards on 560 attempts with 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 359 yards and 9 touchdowns.

That came to 32.9 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ladd McConkey played 16 games and scored 180.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing WR30.

He caught 66 of 106 targets for 789 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Trevor Lawrence was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence scored 20.6 PPR points a game and Ladd McConkey 11.3, 9.3 a game between them.

Trevor Lawrence finished QB4 and Ladd McConkey WR30, which are two different ladders.

Trevor Lawrence is a quarterback and Ladd McConkey a wide receiver, 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.

Ladd McConkey is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

8.3 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.