Should I start Trevor Lawrence or Matthew Stafford in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Stafford, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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.

The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 17.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Matthew Stafford's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

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 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.

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 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Trevor Lawrence 20.6, 0.5 a game between them.

Trevor Lawrence finished QB4 that year and Matthew Stafford QB3.

Matthew Stafford had 37 more pass attempts than Trevor Lawrence, 597 to 560.

Matthew Stafford had 700 more passing yards than Trevor Lawrence, 4707 to 4007.

This season Matthew Stafford holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 97 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Trevor Lawrence is off in Week 7 and Matthew Stafford in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Matthew Stafford has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.