Should I start Tanner McKee or Jalen Brooks in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 1:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Tanner McKee: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jalen Brooks's 38 percent of the snaps and 9 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.

Should I drop Jalen Brooks for Tanner McKee?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Tanner McKee projects 144 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.4 a game over 10 games), Jalen Brooks 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Tanner McKee

QB22 · PHI · bye unlisted

Overall rank: 142

Jalen Brooks

WR47 · ARI · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Market-based projection: 4.0 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 Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Brooks, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 13.7 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.

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 48 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 48 dropbacks.

In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

Through Week 6, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 21 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 13.5 air yards.

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

In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 2 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.

He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.

He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jalen Brooks was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tanner McKee scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 2.7 a game between them.

Tanner McKee is a quarterback and Jalen Brooks a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Tanner McKee has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jalen Brooks for Tanner McKee?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tanner McKee projects 144 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.4 a game over 10 games), Jalen Brooks 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Tanner McKee for Jalen Brooks?
No. Keep Tanner McKee: he projects 144 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.4 a game over 10 games), Jalen Brooks 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).