Kirk Cousins or Trevor Lawrence: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 13, 2026 at 11:01 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Trevor Lawrence over Kirk Cousins
- Market projects
- 16.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 15.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Kirk Cousins, 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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QB12 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 87
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
QB13 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market price
- 16.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size183 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Trevor Lawrence: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Kirk Cousins at 16.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 5 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Trevor Lawrence at 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 139 players the market prices.
Kirk Cousins's price 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.
Through Week 5, Trevor Lawrence has been on the field for 97 percent of JAX snaps, dropped back 157 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 29 of 157 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 3 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 182 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against CIN he completed 18 of 23 passes for 227 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 2 yards.
In Week 5 against PHI he completed 24 of 39 passes for 331 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 25 yards.
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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 Trevor Lawrence played 17 games and scored 350.2 PPR points, 20.6 a game, finishing QB4.
He threw for 4007 yards on 560 attempts with 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 359 yards and 9 touchdowns.
That came to 32.9 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Trevor Lawrence was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Trevor Lawrence scored 20.6 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 9.7 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 that year and Trevor Lawrence QB4.
Trevor Lawrence had 291 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 560 to 269.
Trevor Lawrence had 2286 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 4007 to 1721.
Their snap share this season is the same, 97 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Trevor Lawrence is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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