Tanner McKee or Cam Ward: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tanner McKee, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB25 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 127
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
QB26 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 13.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 14.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Cam Ward's market-based projection is 13.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.
Tanner McKee's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.
He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Cam Ward was available for 13 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 7.7 a game between them.
Tanner McKee finished QB55 that year and Cam Ward QB22.
Cam Ward had 497 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 540 to 43.
Cam Ward had 2895 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 3169 to 274.
Byes and availability
Cam Ward is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.
What would change the answer
Tanner McKee is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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