Should I start Deebo Samuel Sr. or Kirk Cousins 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.

Updated Oct 18, 10:21 AM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Kirk Cousins: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Deebo Samuel Sr.'s 62 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Deebo Samuel Sr.

WR43 · SF · bye 8

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Market-based projection: 8.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank: 109
Draft pick: no draft data
Tier: 16

Kirk Cousins

QB18 · LV · bye 13

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Market-based projection: 15.5 pts a game
Draft pick: no draft data

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Deebo Samuel Sr., and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Deebo Samuel Sr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Kirk Cousins's market-based projection is 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 57 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SEA he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 97 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 180 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 34 of 180 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 3 against NO he completed 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.

In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.

In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deebo Samuel Sr. is a wide receiver and Kirk Cousins a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Deebo Samuel Sr. is off in Week 8 and Kirk Cousins in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Deebo Samuel Sr. is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Deebo Samuel Sr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

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