Jalen Hurts or Cole Kmet: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cole Kmet: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jalen Hurts is 12.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Cole Kmet's market-based projection is 3.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 137th highest figure of the 166 players with a market-based projection.

Jalen Hurts's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.

In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

Through Week 5, Cole Kmet has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

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

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.

He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.

That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.

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

In 2025 Cole Kmet played 16 games and scored 78.7 PPR points, 4.9 a game, finishing TE36.

He caught 30 of 48 targets for 347 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 14.1 a game between them.

Jalen Hurts finished QB8 and Cole Kmet TE36, which are two different ladders.

Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Cole Kmet a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

Jalen Hurts is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.