Darnell Washington or Tanner McKee: 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.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tanner McKee, 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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TE21 · PIT · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 5.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB25 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 128
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size216 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 Darnell Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 173 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 13.9 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tanner McKee's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 67 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.
He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Darnell Washington was available for 12 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Darnell Washington scored 4.6 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 0.9 a game between them.
Darnell Washington finished TE39 and Tanner McKee QB55, which are two different ladders.
Darnell Washington is a tight end and Tanner McKee a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
What would change the answer
Tanner McKee is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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