Cam Ward or Tyler Badie: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Badie: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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 178 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Badie is 4.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

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, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 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 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.

He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.

That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 18 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cam Ward was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Tyler Badie 2.2, 9.2 a game between them.

Cam Ward finished QB22 and Tyler Badie RB77, which are two different ladders.

Cam Ward is a quarterback and Tyler Badie a running back, 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 Tyler Badie.

What would change the answer

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