Should I start Jordan Love or Khalil Shakir in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 7:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Jordan Love: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Khalil Shakir's 72 percent of the snaps and 19 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 Khalil Shakir for Jordan Love?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jordan Love projects 160 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.0 a game over 10 games), Khalil Shakir 97 (9.7 a game over 10 games).

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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.

Jordan Love

QB8 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Market-based projection: 17.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 68

Khalil Shakir

WR27 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 11.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 69

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The gap

Board size332 draftable players

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 Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Jordan Love, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Khalil Shakir, 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 6

Through Week 6, Jordan Love has been on the field for 99 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 240 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 240 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 4 against TB he completed 22 of 30 passes for 197 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against CHI he completed 25 of 31 passes for 367 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he completed 23 of 41 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

Through Week 6, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.

He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.

He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Khalil Shakir was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Khalil Shakir 10.4, 5.7 a game between them.

Jordan Love finished QB15 and Khalil Shakir WR36, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Love is a quarterback and Khalil Shakir a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Love is off in Week 11 and Khalil Shakir in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Khalil Shakir for Jordan Love?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jordan Love projects 160 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.0 a game over 10 games), Khalil Shakir 97 (9.7 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Jordan Love for Khalil Shakir?
No. Keep Jordan Love: he projects 160 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.0 a game over 10 games), Khalil Shakir 97 (9.7 a game over 10 games).