Dak Prescott or Colston Loveland: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Dak Prescott's market-based projection is 18.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 9.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dak Prescott: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 209 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 209 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.

In Week 3 against BAL he completed 25 of 40 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he completed 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

In Week 5 against TB he completed 24 of 42 passes for 316 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions.

Through Week 5, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 85 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.

He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

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

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dak Prescott was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 8.7 a game between them.

Dak Prescott finished QB6 and Colston Loveland TE12, which are two different ladders.

Dak Prescott is a quarterback and Colston Loveland a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dak Prescott is off in Week 14 and Colston Loveland in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

9.5 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.