Should I start Joe Burrow or Ryan Flournoy in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ryan Flournoy, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Joe Burrow is 18.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ryan Flournoy's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 204 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 204 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

In Week 5 against MIA he completed 23 of 32 passes for 190 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

Through Week 6, Ryan Flournoy has been on the field for 74 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 4 of 5 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 4 targets for 90 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 7 of 9 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ryan Flournoy played 16 games and scored 114.0 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing WR57.

He caught 40 of 56 targets for 475 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3-4 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ryan Flournoy was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Ryan Flournoy 7.1, 10.3 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 and Ryan Flournoy WR57, which are two different ladders.

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and Ryan Flournoy a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Ryan Flournoy in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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