Should I start Sam Darnold or Tre Tucker in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 7:31 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Sam Darnold: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tre Tucker's 67 percent of the snaps and 21 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.
Should I drop Tre Tucker for Sam Darnold?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Sam Darnold projects 106 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.1 a game over 7 games), Tre Tucker 64 (9.1 a game over 7 games). Sam Darnold is listed out.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB23 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Market-based projection
- 14.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 120
WR43 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 3-6
- Market-based projection
- 6.4 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 Sam Darnold, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tre Tucker, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Sam Darnold, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Tre Tucker's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 90 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 235 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 45 of 235 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
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.
In Week 7 against KC he completed 20 of 28 passes for 257 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
In Week 8 against CHI he completed 17 of 34 passes for 188 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 20 yards.
Through Week 9, Tre Tucker has been on the field for 67 percent of LV snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 17 of the offence's 84 third down targets, had 0 of its 27 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 56 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.
In Week 7 against LAR he caught 5 of 12 targets for 103 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against SF he caught 4 of 8 targets for 55 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Tre Tucker played 17 games and scored 161.7 PPR points, 9.5 a game, finishing WR38.
He caught 57 of 92 targets for 696 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Sam Darnold scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Tre Tucker 9.5, 5.2 a game between them.
Sam Darnold finished QB13 and Tre Tucker WR38, which are two different ladders.
Sam Darnold is a quarterback and Tre Tucker a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Sam Darnold is off in Week 11 and Tre Tucker in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Sam Darnold is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Sam Darnold has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Tre Tucker for Sam Darnold?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Sam Darnold projects 106 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.1 a game over 7 games), Tre Tucker 64 (9.1 a game over 7 games). Sam Darnold is listed out.
Should I drop Sam Darnold for Tre Tucker?
No. Keep Sam Darnold: he projects 106 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.1 a game over 7 games), Tre Tucker 64 (9.1 a game over 7 games). Sam Darnold is listed out.
Both players in full
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