Should I start Bo Nix or AJ Barner in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 2:31 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Bo Nix: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against AJ Barner's 93 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.

Should I drop AJ Barner for Bo Nix?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 163 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.3 a game over 10 games), AJ Barner 67 (6.7 a game over 10 games).

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Bo Nix

QB21 · DEN · bye 10

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Market-based projection: 14.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 126

AJ Barner

TE22 · SEA · bye 11

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Market-based projection: 7.1 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 127

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The gap

Board size328 draftable players

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 Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Bo Nix, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for AJ Barner, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 202 times and thrown 4.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 202 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against SF he completed 25 of 42 passes for 214 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

Through Week 6, AJ Barner has been on the field for 90 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.

He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and AJ Barner 8.7, 9.9 a game between them.

Bo Nix finished QB7 and AJ Barner TE14, which are two different ladders.

Bo Nix is a quarterback and AJ Barner a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bo Nix is off in Week 10 and AJ Barner in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop AJ Barner for Bo Nix?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 163 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.3 a game over 10 games), AJ Barner 67 (6.7 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Bo Nix for AJ Barner?
No. Keep Bo Nix: he projects 163 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.3 a game over 10 games), AJ Barner 67 (6.7 a game over 10 games).