Should I start Matthew Stafford or Shedeur Sanders in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:31 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Matthew Stafford: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 1 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB29 · LAR · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 4-3
- Market-based projection
- 16.5 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 172
QB · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs pass td line 2-6
- Overall rank
- 221
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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 Matthew Stafford, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 221st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 0.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 98 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 290 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 290 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 6 against ARI he completed 25 of 33 passes for 222 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 7 against LV he completed 23 of 29 passes for 195 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Through Week 3, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 1 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 1 time and thrown -4.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 0 of 1 dropback.
In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.
He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.
He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26-27 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Matthew Stafford was available for 9 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Shedeur Sanders 11.9, 9.2 a game between them.
Matthew Stafford finished QB3 that year and Shedeur Sanders QB37.
Matthew Stafford had 385 more pass attempts than Shedeur Sanders, 597 to 212.
Matthew Stafford had 3307 more passing yards than Shedeur Sanders, 4707 to 1400.
This season Matthew Stafford holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 1 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
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