Should I start Mark Andrews or Kirk Cousins in Week 6?
Updated Oct 19, 4:06 AM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kirk Cousins: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Mark Andrews's 61 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE15 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 8.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 103
QB18 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 5-1
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 104
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Mark Andrews, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Kirk Cousins, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 65 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 13 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 35 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he caught 3 of 5 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TEN he caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against ATL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 97 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 180 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 34 of 180 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 3 against NO he completed 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Mark Andrews played 17 games and scored 131.0 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing TE16.
He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Mark Andrews was available for 7 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 3.1 a game between them.
Mark Andrews finished TE16 and Kirk Cousins QB35, which are two different ladders.
Mark Andrews is a tight end and Kirk Cousins a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Both players in full
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