Kyler Murray 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 2:56 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 · MIN · on bye this week
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Market-based projection
- 16.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 171
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
QB36 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 193
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 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 Kyler Murray: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 171st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Fernando Mendoza: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 193rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Kyler Murray, 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, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 80 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 122 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 16 of 122 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.
In Week 3 against TB he completed 15 of 29 passes for 168 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
In Week 4 against MIA he completed 27 of 37 passes for 247 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 21 yards.
In Week 5 against NO he completed 24 of 29 passes for 229 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 54 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 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.
He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 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 Kyler Murray holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Kyler Murray is off in Week 6 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
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