Should I start Bryce Young or Stefon Diggs in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 9:31 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Bryce Young: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Stefon Diggs's 58 percent of the snaps and 22 percent of the targets. 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 Stefon Diggs for Bryce Young?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 183 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.6 a game over 11 games), Stefon Diggs 56 (5.6 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.

Bryce Young

QB14 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs pass yds line 5-0

Market-based projection: 16.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 95

Stefon Diggs

WR38 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-2

Market-based projection: 9.3 pts a game

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Their Week 7 outlook

The gap

Board size332 draftable players

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 Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

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

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 47.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Bryce Young, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Stefon Diggs's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 8th highest figure of the 14 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Bryce Young has been on the field for 96 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 217 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 35 of 217 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

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.

In Week 6 against PHI he completed 20 of 39 passes for 281 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.

Through Week 4, Stefon Diggs has been on the field for 59 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 9.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 47 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 5 of 9 targets for 35 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 Stefon Diggs played 17 games and scored 210.3 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing WR17.

He caught 85 of 102 targets for 1013 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Stefon Diggs was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Stefon Diggs 12.4, 1.9 a game between them.

Bryce Young finished QB19 and Stefon Diggs WR17, which are two different ladders.

Bryce Young is a quarterback and Stefon Diggs 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 Stefon Diggs in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Bryce Young has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Stefon Diggs for Bryce Young?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 183 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.6 a game over 11 games), Stefon Diggs 56 (5.6 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Bryce Young for Stefon Diggs?
No. Keep Bryce Young: he projects 183 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.6 a game over 11 games), Stefon Diggs 56 (5.6 a game over 10 games).