Should I start Romeo Doubs or Sam Darnold in Week 7?
Updated Oct 22, 3:36 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Sam Darnold: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Romeo Doubs's 52 percent of the snaps and 13 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR39 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 7.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 108
QB20 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 15.4 pts a game
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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 Romeo Doubs, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Sam Darnold, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Romeo Doubs, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Sam Darnold's market-based projection is 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Romeo Doubs has been on the field for 58 percent of NE snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 24 targets have averaged 17.6 air yards.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 6 of 9 targets for 58 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against LV he caught 1 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 1 target for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 6, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 86 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 166 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 166 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 4 against LAC he completed 13 of 22 passes for 168 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 8 yards.
In Week 5 against SF he completed 18 of 29 passes for 195 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 6 against DEN he completed 27 of 49 passes for 278 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 19 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Romeo Doubs played 16 games and scored 165.4 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing WR37.
He caught 55 of 85 targets for 724 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.
That came to 5.3 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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 9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Sam Darnold was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Sam Darnold scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Romeo Doubs 10.3, 4.3 a game between them.
Romeo Doubs finished WR37 and Sam Darnold QB13, which are two different ladders.
Romeo Doubs is a wide receiver 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.
Romeo Doubs is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Romeo Doubs has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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