C.J. Stroud or Lamar Jackson: 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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Lamar Jackson over C.J. Stroud
- Market projects
- 20.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 88%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 16.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Lamar Jackson, 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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QB11 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Market-based projection
- 16.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB28 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 161
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size202 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 C.J. Stroud: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 30.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Lamar Jackson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 161st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 3.
The market-based projections
C.J. Stroud's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 158 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Lamar Jackson is 1.9 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.
Lamar Jackson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 5, C.J. Stroud has been on the field for 100 percent of HOU snaps, dropped back 202 times and thrown 9.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 29 of 202 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 3 against IND he completed 16 of 27 passes for 167 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.
In Week 4 against DAL he completed 21 of 29 passes for 347 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
In Week 5 against TEN he completed 26 of 34 passes for 261 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 7 yards.
Through Week 4, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 88 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 2 against NO he completed 21 of 30 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 34 yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he completed 15 of 20 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 50 yards.
In Week 4 against TEN he completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 20 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 C.J. Stroud played 14 games and scored 216.5 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing QB21.
He threw for 3041 yards on 423 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 209 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.2 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.
He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 92 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
C.J. Stroud was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Lamar Jackson scored 17.1 PPR points a game and C.J. Stroud 15.5, 1.6 a game between them.
C.J. Stroud finished QB21 that year and Lamar Jackson QB20.
C.J. Stroud had 121 more pass attempts than Lamar Jackson, 423 to 302.
C.J. Stroud had 492 more passing yards than Lamar Jackson, 3041 to 2549.
This season C.J. Stroud holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 88 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
C.J. Stroud is off in Week 8 and Lamar Jackson in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Lamar Jackson is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Lamar Jackson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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