Brock Purdy or DJ Moore: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 22.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

DJ Moore's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 62nd highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Purdy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on DJ Moore: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 16; 2QB: ADP 37.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 156 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 20 of 156 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against ARI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 297 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 31 yards.

In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 4, DJ Moore has been on the field for 51 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 15.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against DET he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 6 of 10 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DJ Moore played 17 games and scored 170.2 PPR points, 10.0 a game, finishing WR35.

He caught 50 of 85 targets for 682 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.

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

DJ Moore was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and DJ Moore 10.0, 10.8 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and DJ Moore WR35, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and DJ Moore a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

DJ Moore is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Brock Purdy.

DJ Moore is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

11.0 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.