Cam Ward or Davis Allen: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Cam Ward's market-based projection is 11.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Davis Allen's market-based projection is 2.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 148th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Davis Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 176 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 176 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.

In Week 3 against NYG he completed 23 of 36 passes for 181 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 4 against BAL he completed 20 of 31 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 27 yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he completed 23 of 36 passes for 170 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

Through Week 5, Davis Allen has been on the field for 44 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Cam Ward played 17 games and scored 193.7 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing QB22.

He threw for 3169 yards on 540 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 31.8 attempts a game at 5.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Davis Allen played 17 games and scored 62.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE44.

He caught 24 of 33 targets for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 1.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Davis Allen 3.7, 7.7 a game between them.

Cam Ward finished QB22 and Davis Allen TE44, which are two different ladders.

Cam Ward is a quarterback and Davis Allen a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Cam Ward is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Davis Allen.

What would change the answer

9.1 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.