Joe Burrow or Fernando Mendoza: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB33 · CIN · on bye this week
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 17.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 176
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
QB35 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 194
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Fernando Mendoza: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Joe Burrow, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Fernando Mendoza, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 204 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 204 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.
In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
In Week 5 against MIA he completed 23 of 32 passes for 190 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
Through Week 5, Fernando Mendoza has been on the field for 17 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 9 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 9 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 5 against NE he completed 6 of 8 passes for 48 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.
He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Joe Burrow holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
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