Should I start Kirk Cousins or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 17.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

MarShawn Lloyd's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 269 times and thrown 8.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 269 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

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.

Through Week 7, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 38 percent of GB snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 8 times for 10 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 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.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Side by side

Kirk Cousins is a quarterback and MarShawn Lloyd a running back, 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 MarShawn Lloyd in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kirk Cousins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.