Should I start Kirk Cousins or Carson Wentz in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 11:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Kirk Cousins: LV to MIN (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Kyler Murray: Questionable to Out (Hamstring, Soreness) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Vikings to start QB Carson Wentz against Bills with Kyler Murray ruled out (ESPN)
Start Kirk Cousins: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Carson Wentz's 91 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB29 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 7-2
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 179
QB31 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 181
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Carson Wentz, and the board ranks him 181st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 0.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Carson Wentz is 0.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kirk Cousins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 328 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 55 of 328 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 7 against LAR he completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
In Week 8 against NYJ he completed 19 of 26 passes for 247 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 5 yards.
In Week 9 against SF he completed 22 of 32 passes for 216 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions and ran 2 times for 0 yards.
Through Week 9, Carson Wentz has been on the field for 91 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 72 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 72 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against GB he completed 12 of 19 passes for 133 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 2 against CHI he completed 11 of 20 passes for 143 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
In Week 9 against BUF he completed 8 of 24 passes for 81 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Carson Wentz played 5 games and scored 75.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB39.
He threw for 1216 yards on 169 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 57 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 33.8 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 71 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kirk Cousins was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Carson Wentz scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 4.2 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 that year and Carson Wentz QB39.
Kirk Cousins had 100 more pass attempts than Carson Wentz, 269 to 169.
Kirk Cousins had 505 more passing yards than Carson Wentz, 1721 to 1216.
This season Kirk Cousins holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 91 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13 and Carson Wentz in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
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