Should I start Kendrick Bourne or Geno Smith in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kendrick Bourne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Geno Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kendrick Bourne's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Geno Smith is 16.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 59 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.

He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Kendrick Bourne was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Geno Smith scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Kendrick Bourne 5.8, 7.0 a game between them.

Kendrick Bourne finished WR68 and Geno Smith QB23, which are two different ladders.

Kendrick Bourne is a wide receiver and Geno Smith a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kendrick Bourne is off in Week 14 and Geno Smith in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.