Bo Nix or Marcus Mariota: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Bo Nix over Marcus Mariota
- Market projects
- 11.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.6
- recent weeks avg
- SF D vs QB
- 13.7
- 5th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 54%
- Through Week 4
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Marcus Mariota, 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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QB23 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 15.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-10
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Marcus Mariota at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
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 44th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Marcus Mariota, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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 4, Marcus Mariota has been on the field for 54 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 57 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 57 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.
In Week 3 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 183 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 13 yards.
In Week 4 against IND he completed 3 of 4 passes for 46 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.
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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 Marcus Mariota played 11 games and scored 132.5 PPR points, 12.0 a game, finishing QB32.
He threw for 1695 yards on 227 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 297 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 20.6 attempts a game at 8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Bo Nix was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Marcus Mariota 12.0, 6.5 a game between them.
Bo Nix finished QB7 that year and Marcus Mariota QB32.
Bo Nix had 385 more pass attempts than Marcus Mariota, 612 to 227.
Bo Nix had 2236 more passing yards than Marcus Mariota, 3931 to 1695.
This season Bo Nix holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 54 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Bo Nix is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Marcus Mariota.
What would change the answer
Marcus Mariota has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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