Bucky Irving or Kirk Cousins: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kirk Cousins's market-based projection is 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 145 players with a market-based projection.

Bucky Irving's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 61 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 21 times for 165 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 5, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 97 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 180 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 34 of 180 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 3 against NO he completed 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.

In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 10 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 3.0 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 and Kirk Cousins QB35, which are two different ladders.

Bucky Irving is a running back and Kirk Cousins a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.

What would change the answer

Bucky Irving is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.