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Should I start Kendrick Bourne or Quentin Johnston in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 16, 3:41 PM ET.

Week 6 verdict

Start Kendrick Bourne over Quentin Johnston

Market projects
7.8
fantasy pts
Snap share
59%
Through Week 5
Target share
11%
Through Week 5
Sit

Quentin Johnston

WR · LAC · at KC

Market projects
7.8
fantasy pts
KC D vs WR
20.9
fewest to WRs (2026)
Snap share
80%
Through Week 4
Target share
16%
Through Week 4
Start Bourne or Johnston? The full Week 6 breakdown

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Quentin Johnston, 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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WR38 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Market-based projection
8.0 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

WR77 · LAC · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Overall rank
200
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
25

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Also deciding this week

The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size316 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.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kendrick Bourne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Quentin Johnston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kendrick Bourne's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Quentin Johnston is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 59 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Quentin Johnston has been on the field for 80 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against LV he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 1 of 5 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 3 of 6 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

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Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.

He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Quentin Johnston played 14 games and scored 171.2 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR34.

He caught 51 of 85 targets for 735 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kendrick Bourne was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Quentin Johnston scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Kendrick Bourne 5.8, 6.5 a game between them.

Kendrick Bourne finished WR68 that year and Quentin Johnston WR34.

Quentin Johnston had 32 more targets than Kendrick Bourne, 85 to 53.

Quentin Johnston had 184 more receiving yards than Kendrick Bourne, 735 to 551.

This season Quentin Johnston holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 59 percent.

This season Quentin Johnston holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Kendrick Bourne is off in Week 14 and Quentin Johnston in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Quentin Johnston is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

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