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Tanner McKee 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.

Updated Oct 15, 2:46 PM ET.

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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QB28 · PHI · bye unlisted

Overall rank
160
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
9

QB30 · TB · bye 10

2025 vs pass yds line 8-9

Overall rank
183
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
11

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The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
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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 Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 160th 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 Tanner McKee is 10.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 5 market sources. That is 70 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 through Week 3

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

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.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

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 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Baker Mayfield scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 13.0 a game between them.

Tanner McKee finished QB55 that year and Baker Mayfield QB12.

Baker Mayfield had 500 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 543 to 43.

Baker Mayfield had 3419 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 3693 to 274.

Byes and availability

Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

Baker Mayfield is listed as doubtful on the injury report.

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