Should I start Tyler Shough or Quinshon Judkins in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 9:46 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Tyler Shough: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Quinshon Judkins's 56 percent of the snaps and 64 percent of the carries. 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.
Should I drop Quinshon Judkins for Tyler Shough?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Shough projects 172 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.2 a game over 10 games), Quinshon Judkins 122 (12.2 a game over 10 games). Quinshon Judkins is listed questionable.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
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- Market-based projection
- 10.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 96
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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 Tyler Shough, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Tyler Shough's market-based projection is 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Quinshon Judkins is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Quinshon Judkins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 255 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 255 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
In Week 5 against MIN he completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
In Week 6 against NYG he completed 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 33 yards.
Through Week 5, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 60 percent of CLE snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 20 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against CAR he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against PIT he carried 17 times for 53 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 44 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.
He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.
He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.
That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Quinshon Judkins was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Quinshon Judkins 11.3, 3.6 a game between them.
Tyler Shough finished QB26 and Quinshon Judkins RB26, which are two different ladders.
Tyler Shough is a quarterback and Quinshon Judkins a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Tyler Shough is off in Week 8 and Quinshon Judkins in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Quinshon Judkins is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Quinshon Judkins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Quinshon Judkins for Tyler Shough?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Shough projects 172 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.2 a game over 10 games), Quinshon Judkins 122 (12.2 a game over 10 games). Quinshon Judkins is listed questionable.
Should I drop Tyler Shough for Quinshon Judkins?
No. Keep Tyler Shough: he projects 172 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.2 a game over 10 games), Quinshon Judkins 122 (12.2 a game over 10 games). Quinshon Judkins is listed questionable.
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