Jalen Hurts or Darren Waller: 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 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darren Waller: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jalen Hurts is 17.3 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.

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 152 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 so far

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 4, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 5 of 8 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 36 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 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jalen Hurts was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Darren Waller 9.9, 9.2 a game between them.

Jalen Hurts finished QB8 and Darren Waller TE33, which are two different ladders.

Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Darren Waller 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 Darren Waller.

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.