Should I start Kirk Cousins or Drew Lock in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 2:36 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Kirk Cousins: LV to MIN (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Seahawks to start QB Drew Lock vs. Raiders, giving Sam Darnold more time to heal (ESPN)
- : Drew Lock: Listed Questionable (Oblique) (Sleeper injury feed)
Week 10 verdict
Start Drew Lock over Kirk Cousins
- Market projects
- 14.7
- fantasy pts
- LV D vs QB
- 20.6
- 5th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 9
- Market projects
- 13.7
- recent weeks avg
- GB D vs QB
- 13.9
- 6th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 98%
- Through Week 9
Start Drew Lock over Kirk Cousins in Week 10. Lock faces LV, which allows the 5th most fantasy points to QBs. Lock is listed questionable.
Should I drop Drew Lock for Kirk Cousins?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 118 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (14.8 a game over 8 games), Drew Lock 106 (15.1 a game over 7 games). For Week 10 the call starts Drew Lock over Kirk Cousins. So make the move after his Week 10 game. Drew Lock is listed questionable.
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Your next move
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB17 · MIN · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 7-2
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 100
QB21 · SEA · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 14.9 pts a game
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The gap
- Board size313 draftable players
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 Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Kirk Cousins, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Drew Lock's market-based projection is 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 38th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 328 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 55 of 328 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 7 against LAR he completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
In Week 8 against NYJ he completed 19 of 26 passes for 247 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 5 yards.
In Week 9 against SF he completed 22 of 32 passes for 216 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions and ran 2 times for 0 yards.
Through Week 9, Drew Lock has been on the field for 97 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 80 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 80 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against NE he completed 16 of 22 passes for 187 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 14 yards.
In Week 2 against ARI he completed 19 of 26 passes for 235 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 9 against ARI he completed 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 18 yards.
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 Drew Lock played 5 games and scored 0.1 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing QB73.
He threw for 15 yards on 3 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for -5 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 0.6 attempts a game at 5.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kirk Cousins was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Drew Lock 0.0, 10.8 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 that year and Drew Lock QB73.
Kirk Cousins had 266 more pass attempts than Drew Lock, 269 to 3.
Kirk Cousins had 1706 more passing yards than Drew Lock, 1721 to 15.
This season Kirk Cousins holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 97 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Kirk Cousins is off in Week 6 and Drew Lock in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Drew Lock for Kirk Cousins?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 118 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (14.8 a game over 8 games), Drew Lock 106 (15.1 a game over 7 games). For Week 10 the call starts Drew Lock over Kirk Cousins. So make the move after his Week 10 game. Drew Lock is listed questionable.
Should I drop Kirk Cousins for Drew Lock?
No. Keep Kirk Cousins: he projects 118 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (14.8 a game over 8 games), Drew Lock 106 (15.1 a game over 7 games). For Week 10 the call starts Drew Lock over Kirk Cousins. Drew Lock is listed questionable.
Both players in full
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