Should I start Kirk Cousins or Jaxson Dart in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 7:56 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kirk Cousins: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jaxson Dart's 60 percent of the snaps and 0 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.
QB21 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 7-1
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game
QB · NYG · bye 8
2025 vs pass td line 5-7
- Overall rank
- 242
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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 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaxson Dart, and the board ranks him 242nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 16.
The market-based projections
Kirk Cousins's market-based projection is 15.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jaxson Dart, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 296 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 296 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 6 against BUF he completed 23 of 41 passes for 313 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
In Week 7 against LAR he completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
In Week 8 against NYJ he completed 19 of 26 passes for 247 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 5 yards.
Through Week 2, Jaxson Dart has been on the field for 60 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 38 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 6 of 38 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against DAL he completed 23 of 29 passes for 230 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 59 yards.
In Week 2 against LAR he completed 3 of 5 passes for 20 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
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 Jaxson Dart played 14 games and scored 246.6 PPR points, 17.6 a game, finishing QB14.
He threw for 2272 yards on 339 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 487 yards and 9 touchdowns.
That came to 24.2 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jaxson Dart was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jaxson Dart scored 17.6 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 6.8 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 that year and Jaxson Dart QB14.
Jaxson Dart had 70 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 339 to 269.
Jaxson Dart had 551 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 2272 to 1721.
This season Kirk Cousins holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 60 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13 and Jaxson Dart in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jaxson Dart is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jaxson Dart has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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