Seth McGowan or Kirk Cousins: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 3.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kirk Cousins's market-based projection is 15.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 37th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 18 percent of IND snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against HOU he carried 4 times for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 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

Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Side by side

Seth McGowan is a running back and Kirk Cousins a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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