Jalen Hurts or Jake Ferguson: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Jalen Hurts, 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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QB11 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 86
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
TE14 · DAL · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 7.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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 Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jake Ferguson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jalen Hurts is 17.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 7.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
Jalen Hurts's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
Through Week 5, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 72 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 21 targets have averaged 4.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against BAL he caught 3 of 5 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.
He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.
That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jake Ferguson was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Jake Ferguson 11.1, 8.0 a game between them.
Jalen Hurts finished QB8 and Jake Ferguson TE5, which are two different ladders.
Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Jake Ferguson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jake Ferguson.
What would change the answer
Jalen Hurts is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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