Dak Prescott or Tyler Allgeier: 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.

Tyler Allgeier's market-based projection is 7.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 101st 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 Tyler Allgeier: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Tyler Allgeier has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 29 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 2.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against SF he carried 2 times for -1 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 8 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 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 Tyler Allgeier played 17 games and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.

He carried 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 more yards.

That came to 8.4 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Tyler Allgeier 7.2, 11.8 a game between them.

Dak Prescott finished QB6 and Tyler Allgeier RB39, which are two different ladders.

Dak Prescott is a quarterback and Tyler Allgeier a running back, 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. No bye is listed for Tyler Allgeier.

What would change the answer

11.4 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.