Jalen Hurts or Baker Mayfield: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, 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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QB27 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 151
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
QB30 · TB · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 8-9
- Overall rank
- 183
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size215 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Baker Mayfield: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 183rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jalen Hurts is 12.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Baker Mayfield, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
Through Week 3, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 98 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 118 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 118 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 1 against CIN he completed 23 of 28 passes for 216 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 31 yards.
In Week 2 against CLE he completed 21 of 34 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 29 yards.
In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.
He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Baker Mayfield was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Baker Mayfield 16.6, 2.4 a game between them.
Jalen Hurts finished QB8 that year and Baker Mayfield QB12.
Baker Mayfield had 89 more pass attempts than Jalen Hurts, 543 to 454.
Baker Mayfield had 469 more passing yards than Jalen Hurts, 3693 to 3224.
This season Jalen Hurts holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 98 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Jalen Hurts is listed as out on the injury report.
Baker Mayfield is listed as doubtful on the injury report.
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