Evan Engram or Tanner McKee: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th 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

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 123rd 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, Evan Engram has been on the field for 58 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 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.

Evan Engram was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Evan Engram scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 2.7 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 and Tanner McKee QB55, which are two different ladders.

Evan Engram 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.