Should I start Kirk Cousins or Tanner McKee in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Kirk Cousins over Tanner McKee
- Market projects
- 15.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 14.2
- fantasy pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tanner McKee, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB19 · LV · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 15.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB27 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 143
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size317 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Kirk Cousins's market-based projection is 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 14.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tanner McKee's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.
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 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.
He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kirk Cousins was available for 6 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 7.2 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 that year and Tanner McKee QB55.
Kirk Cousins had 226 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 269 to 43.
Kirk Cousins had 1447 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 1721 to 274.
Byes and availability
Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.
What would change the answer
Tanner McKee is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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