MarShawn Lloyd or Sam Darnold: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 2:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Sam Darnold, 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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RB34 · GB · bye 11
- Books price
- 6.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB26 · SEA · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 131
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 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 MarShawn Lloyd: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 130.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Sam Darnold: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 62.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price MarShawn Lloyd at 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 146th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The books have Sam Darnold at 14.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 11 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Sam Darnold's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 2, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 36 percent of GB snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 4.7 air yards.
In Week 1 against MIN he carried 13 times for 37 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd 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 8.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
MarShawn Lloyd 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
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
What would change the answer
Sam Darnold is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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