Cam Ward or Lil'Jordan Humphrey: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Cam Ward's market-based projection is 11.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 68th highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

Lil'Jordan Humphrey's market-based projection is 2.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 142nd highest figure of the 161 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 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Lil'Jordan Humphrey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th 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, Lil'Jordan Humphrey has been on the field for 14 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 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 Lil'Jordan Humphrey played 10 games and scored 34.6 PPR points, 3.5 a game, finishing WR127.

He caught 13 of 25 targets for 156 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2-3 targets a game, a 52 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cam Ward was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Lil'Jordan Humphrey 3.5, 7.9 a game between them.

Cam Ward finished QB22 and Lil'Jordan Humphrey WR127, which are two different ladders.

Cam Ward is a quarterback and Lil'Jordan Humphrey a wide receiver, 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 Lil'Jordan Humphrey.

What would change the answer

8.6 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.