Should I start Kirk Cousins or Keon Coleman in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Kirk Cousins's market-based projection is 15.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 37th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Keon Coleman's market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keon Coleman, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 296 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 296 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 6 against BUF he completed 23 of 41 passes for 313 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 7 against LAR he completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

In Week 8 against NYJ he completed 19 of 26 passes for 247 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 5 yards.

Through Week 8, Keon Coleman has been on the field for 70 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 15.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BAL he caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Keon Coleman played 13 games and scored 102.4 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR60.

He caught 38 of 59 targets for 404 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 4-5 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Keon Coleman was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Keon Coleman 7.9, 3.0 a game between them.

Kirk Cousins finished QB35 and Keon Coleman WR60, which are two different ladders.

Kirk Cousins is a quarterback and Keon Coleman a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13 and Keon Coleman in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.8 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.