Justin Herbert or Tyler Badie: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

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.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Badie: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

The market-based projection for Tyler Badie is 4.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

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.

Through Week 5, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.

He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.

That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 18 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Tyler Badie 2.2, 16.5 a game between them.

Justin Herbert finished QB10 and Tyler Badie RB77, which are two different ladders.

Justin Herbert is a quarterback and Tyler Badie a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Justin Herbert is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Tyler Badie.

What would change the answer

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