Geno Smith or George Holani: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Geno Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on George Holani: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Geno Smith is 16.2 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.

George Holani's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

Geno Smith's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 171 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 171 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 3 against DET he completed 31 of 37 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 4 against CHI he completed 8 of 15 passes for 119 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against CLE he completed 17 of 30 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 9 yards.

Through Week 5, George Holani has been on the field for 36 percent of SEA snaps, taken 19 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against WAS he carried 3 times for 10 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 4 times for 7 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.

He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 George Holani played 11 games and scored 20.8 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing RB93.

He carried 22 times for 73 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 2.0 carries a game at 3.3 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Geno Smith was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Geno Smith scored 12.7 PPR points a game and George Holani 1.9, 10.8 a game between them.

Geno Smith finished QB23 and George Holani RB93, which are two different ladders.

Geno Smith is a quarterback and George Holani a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Geno Smith is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for George Holani.

What would change the answer

Geno Smith is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.