Should I start Tanner McKee or Colby Parkinson in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Tanner McKee's market-based projection is 14.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 55th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 119th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 48 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 48 dropbacks.

In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.

He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Colby Parkinson was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 5.0 a game between them.

Tanner McKee finished QB55 and Colby Parkinson TE17, which are two different ladders.

Tanner McKee is a quarterback and Colby Parkinson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.