Tanner McKee or Justin Herbert: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 14.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Justin Herbert's market-based projection is 13.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.

Through Week 5, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.

In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.

In Week 5 against DEN he completed 14 of 23 passes for 121 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 54 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.

He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.

He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Justin Herbert was available for 12 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 15.1 a game between them.

Tanner McKee finished QB55 that year and Justin Herbert QB10.

Justin Herbert had 469 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 512 to 43.

Justin Herbert had 3453 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 3727 to 274.

Byes and availability

Justin Herbert is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

What would change the answer

Tanner McKee is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.