Jalen Hurts vs Jordan Love: Who Should You Start?
Jalen Hurts and Jordan Love are both viable fantasy quarterbacks heading into 2026, but their 2025 production tells two different stories. Jalen Hurts averaged 19.1 PPG across 16 games with the Philadelphia Eagles, while Jordan Love posted 16.1 PPG in 15 appearances for the Green Bay Packers.
A 3.0-PPG gap gives Jalen Hurts the edge on paper, but paper does not account for Thursday night matchups, weather games, or a star defender returning from injury. The real question is not who was better in 2025, but who is the better start this specific week.
Jalen Hurts offers meaningful rushing upside with 421 yards on the ground in 2025, which separates his floor from a pocket passer like Jordan Love (3381 passing yards, 23 touchdowns). In games where the passing matchup looks ugly, that rushing production can be the entire difference on a start/sit call.
Jalen Hurts has his bye in Week 5, and Jordan Love rests in Week 10. Managers rostering both need waiver wire depth at quarterback for those two weeks, and that is exactly the kind of planning DraftCall's matchup engine surfaces automatically so you are not scrambling on a Sunday morning.
