Bryce Young or Kendrick Bourne: who should I start in Week 6?

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 180 players with a market-based projection.

Kendrick Bourne's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 180 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 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kendrick Bourne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th 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, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 59 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

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 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.

He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 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 Kendrick Bourne 5.8, 8.6 a game between them.

Bryce Young finished QB19 and Kendrick Bourne WR68, which are two different ladders.

Bryce Young is a quarterback and Kendrick Bourne 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. No bye is listed for Kendrick Bourne.

What would change the answer

8.4 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.