Should I start Kirk Cousins or Pierre Strong in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Kirk Cousins's market-based projection is 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 41st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Pierre Strong's market-based projection is 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 112th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Pierre Strong: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

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.

Through Week 5, Pierre Strong has been on the field for 41 percent of GB snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 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 Pierre Strong in the last completed season.

Side by side

Kirk Cousins is a quarterback and Pierre Strong 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. No bye is listed for Pierre Strong.

What would change the answer

8.0 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.