Bo Nix or Tanner McKee: 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 Tanner McKee
- Market projects
- 14.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.9
- fantasy pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tanner McKee, 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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QB21 · DEN · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 14.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB25 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 127
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Bo Nix's market-based projection is 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 14.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tanner McKee's projection 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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.
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 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.
Bo Nix was available for 13 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 14.9 a game between them.
Bo Nix finished QB7 that year and Tanner McKee QB55.
Bo Nix had 569 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 612 to 43.
Bo Nix had 3657 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 3931 to 274.
Byes and availability
Bo Nix is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.
What would change the answer
Tanner McKee is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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