Should I start Fernando Mendoza or Kirk Cousins in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 3:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Kirk Cousins: LV to MIN (Sleeper injury feed)
Week 10 verdict
Start Kirk Cousins over Fernando Mendoza
- Market projects
- 13.7
- recent weeks avg
- GB D vs QB
- 13.9
- 6th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 98%
- Through Week 9
- Market projects
- 12.0
- fantasy pts
- SEA D vs QB
- 11.9
- 2nd fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 17%
- Through Week 5
Start Kirk Cousins: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Fernando Mendoza's 17 percent of the snaps and 0 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB10 · LV · bye 13
- Market-based projection
- 10.5 pts a game
QB30 · MIN · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 7-2
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 211
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The gap
- Board size307 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 Fernando Mendoza, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Fernando Mendoza's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 0.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kirk Cousins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
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.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Kirk Cousins holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Fernando Mendoza is off in Week 13 and Kirk Cousins in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
- Is Fernando Mendoza playing Week 10?
- Is Kirk Cousins playing Week 10?
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- Week 10 QB rankings
- Week 10 fantasy rankings
- Week 10 start or sit
- Week 10 waiver wire
- Week 10 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 10
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 10 kicker rankings
- Week 10 defense rankings
