Should I start Brock Purdy or Tanner McKee in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 7:21 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Brock Purdy and Tanner McKee are too close to call on usage: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets against 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Tanner McKee for Brock Purdy?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 175 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.5 a game over 10 games), Tanner McKee 144 (14.4 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Brock Purdy

QB7 · SF · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 3-3

Market-based projection: 18.4 pts a game

Tanner McKee

QB15 · PHI · bye unlisted

Overall rank: 96

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 18.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 16.4 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 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 6

Through Week 6, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 98 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 190 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 190 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

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.

In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

Through Week 6, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 48 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 48 dropbacks.

In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

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 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.

Brock Purdy was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 17.1 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 that year and Tanner McKee QB55.

Brock Purdy had 241 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 284 to 43.

Brock Purdy had 1893 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 2167 to 274.

This season Tanner McKee holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 98 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Brock Purdy is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

What would change the answer

Tanner McKee has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Tanner McKee for Brock Purdy?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 175 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.5 a game over 10 games), Tanner McKee 144 (14.4 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Brock Purdy for Tanner McKee?
No. Keep Brock Purdy: he projects 175 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.5 a game over 10 games), Tanner McKee 144 (14.4 a game over 10 games).