Bo Nix or Brock Bowers: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Bo Nix at 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 131 players the market prices.

The market has Brock Bowers at 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brock Bowers's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 172 times and thrown 5.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 172 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against LAR he completed 17 of 34 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 7 yards.

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.

Through Week 5, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 78 percent of LV snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 10 of 13 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Brock Bowers 14.7, 3.9 a game between them.

Bo Nix finished QB7 and Brock Bowers TE11, which are two different ladders.

Bo Nix is a quarterback and Brock Bowers 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 Brock Bowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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