Should I start Justin Herbert or Charlie Kolar in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Justin Herbert's market-based projection is 13.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Charlie Kolar's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 123rd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

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

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Charlie Kolar: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.

In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.

In Week 5 against DEN he completed 14 of 23 passes for 121 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 54 yards.

Through Week 5, Charlie Kolar has been on the field for 65 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against ARI he was not given the ball.

In Week 2 against LV he caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.

He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Charlie Kolar played 17 games and scored 36.2 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing TE62.

He caught 10 of 15 targets for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 0.9 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 40 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Charlie Kolar was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Charlie Kolar 2.1, 16.6 a game between them.

Justin Herbert finished QB10 and Charlie Kolar TE62, which are two different ladders.

Justin Herbert is a quarterback and Charlie Kolar a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

7.3 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.