Kirk Cousins or DK Metcalf: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on DK Metcalf: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Kirk Cousins at 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 37th highest figure of the 142 players the market prices.

The market has DK Metcalf at 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

DK Metcalf's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

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.

Through Week 5, DK Metcalf has been on the field for 95 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 5 of 9 targets for 115 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 DK Metcalf played 15 games and scored 187.2 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing WR26.

He caught 59 of 99 targets for 850 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DK Metcalf was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 DK Metcalf scored 12.5 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 1.6 a game between them.

Kirk Cousins finished QB35 and DK Metcalf WR26, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

DK Metcalf is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.

What would change the answer

DK Metcalf is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.