Brock Purdy or Parker Washington: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 22.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Parker Washington's market-based projection is 13.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 156 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 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Parker Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 18.

This season through Week 5

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 5, Parker Washington has been on the field for 77 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 12.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 6 of 9 targets for 124 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Parker Washington played 16 games and scored 184.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR27.

He caught 58 of 95 targets for 847 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Parker Washington was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Parker Washington 11.5, 9.3 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Parker Washington WR27, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Parker Washington is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Brock Purdy.

What would change the answer

8.9 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.