Jordan Love or Pat Freiermuth: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 17.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 17th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Pat Freiermuth: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jordan Love has been on the field for 99 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 196 times and thrown 8.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 38 of 196 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 3 against ATL he completed 28 of 53 passes for 312 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

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.

Through Week 5, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 69 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.

He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Pat Freiermuth was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Pat Freiermuth 6.7, 9.4 a game between them.

Jordan Love finished QB15 and Pat Freiermuth TE25, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Love is a quarterback and Pat Freiermuth a tight end, 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. No bye is listed for Pat Freiermuth.

What would change the answer

9.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.