Should I start Josh Allen or Chris Olave in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 7:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Josh Allen: 100 percent of the snaps and 1 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Chris Olave's 87 percent of the snaps and 28 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.

Should I drop Chris Olave for Josh Allen?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Josh Allen projects 232 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (23.2 a game over 10 games), Chris Olave 172 (17.2 a game over 10 games).

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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.

Josh Allen

QB1 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 7-2

Market-based projection: 24.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 14

Chris Olave

WR5 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection: 17.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 15

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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 has them

Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.

His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.

He appears in 16 recorded drafts across the draft formats we track.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Olave, and the board ranks him 15th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 9.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Josh Allen, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Chris Olave, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.

Through Week 6, Chris Olave has been on the field for 86 percent of NO snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 61 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he caught 8 of 12 targets for 116 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 4 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chris Olave played 16 games and scored 269.0 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing WR6.

He caught 100 of 156 targets for 1163 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Allen was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Chris Olave 16.8, 5.2 a game between them.

Josh Allen finished QB1 and Chris Olave WR6, which are two different ladders.

Josh Allen is a quarterback and Chris Olave a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Josh Allen is off in Week 7 and Chris Olave in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Chris Olave for Josh Allen?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Josh Allen projects 232 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (23.2 a game over 10 games), Chris Olave 172 (17.2 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Josh Allen for Chris Olave?
No. Keep Josh Allen: he projects 232 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (23.2 a game over 10 games), Chris Olave 172 (17.2 a game over 10 games).