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Should I start Bryce Young or Jakobi Meyers 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.

Updated Oct 16, 6:46 PM ET.

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 8.1 points a game ahead of Jakobi Meyers's this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market-based projection is the live read on these two.

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QB15 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs pass yds line 4-0

Market-based projection
16.3 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

WR39 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection
8.2 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

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Also deciding this week

The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Price difference8.1 points a game
  • Board size317 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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The market-based projections

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 16.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bryce Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jakobi Meyers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Bryce Young has been on the field for 96 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 2 against ATL he completed 23 of 36 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 3 against CLE he completed 26 of 47 passes for 291 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.

In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

Through Week 5, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 81 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 64 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

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Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.

He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

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

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jakobi Meyers 11.0, 3.3 a game between them.

Bryce Young finished QB19 and Jakobi Meyers WR32, which are two different ladders.

Bryce Young is a quarterback and Jakobi Meyers a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bryce Young is off in Week 5 and Jakobi Meyers in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.1 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.

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