Should I start Kirk Cousins or Harold Fannin in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 2:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kirk Cousins: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Harold Fannin's 91 percent of the snaps and 13 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.
QB12 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 5-1
- Overall rank
- 87
TE12 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.6 pts a game
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The gap
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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 Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 16.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Harold Fannin's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.
Kirk Cousins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 221 times and thrown 8.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 40 of 221 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
In Week 6 against BUF he completed 23 of 41 passes for 313 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Through Week 6, Harold Fannin has been on the field for 88 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 12 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.
In Week 4 against PIT he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against NYJ he caught 1 of 4 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against BAL he caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Harold Fannin played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.
He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Harold Fannin was available for 6 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Harold Fannin scored 11.7 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 0.8 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 and Harold Fannin TE6, which are two different ladders.
Kirk Cousins is a quarterback and Harold Fannin a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13 and Harold Fannin in Week 11, 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
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