Bo Nix or Darnell Washington: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 112th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darnell Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 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 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 14.0 a game between them.

Bo Nix finished QB7 and Darnell Washington TE39, which are two different ladders.

Bo Nix is a quarterback and Darnell Washington 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. No bye is listed for Darnell Washington.

What would change the answer

9.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.