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Aaron Rodgers or Tanner McKee: who should I start in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 15, 8:51 PM ET.

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tanner McKee, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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QB24 · PIT · bye 9

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Market-based projection
14.7 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

QB25 · PHI · bye unlisted

Overall rank
127
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
6

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Also deciding this week

The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size222 draftable players

Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Rodgers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Aaron Rodgers's market-based projection is 14.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 51st highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 14.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 98 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 3 against CIN he completed 19 of 33 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 12 yards.

In Week 4 against CLE he completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against IND he completed 22 of 31 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.

He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.

He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Aaron Rodgers was available for 12 games more.

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Head to head

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers scored 14.6 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 10.9 a game between them.

Aaron Rodgers finished QB18 that year and Tanner McKee QB55.

Aaron Rodgers had 455 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 498 to 43.

Aaron Rodgers had 3048 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 3322 to 274.

Byes and availability

Aaron Rodgers is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

What would change the answer

Tanner McKee is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

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