Joe Burrow or Tua Tagovailoa: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:46 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, 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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QB33 · CIN · on bye this week
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 17.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 176
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
QB36 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 5-9
- Overall rank
- 200
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
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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 Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tua Tagovailoa: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Joe Burrow, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Tua Tagovailoa, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
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 5, Tua Tagovailoa has been on the field for 5 percent of ATL snaps, dropped back 3 times and thrown 9.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 0 of 3 dropbacks.
In Week 5 against BAL he completed 2 of 3 passes for 34 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception.
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 Tua Tagovailoa played 14 games and scored 175.7 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing QB25.
He threw for 2660 yards on 384 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 15 interceptions, and ran for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 27.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Tua Tagovailoa was available for 6 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Tua Tagovailoa 12.5, 4.9 a game between them.
Joe Burrow finished QB29 that year and Tua Tagovailoa QB25.
Tua Tagovailoa had 125 more pass attempts than Joe Burrow, 384 to 259.
Tua Tagovailoa had 851 more passing yards than Joe Burrow, 2660 to 1809.
This season Joe Burrow holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 5 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Tua Tagovailoa in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
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