Should I start Tyler Shough or Ladd McConkey in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Tyler Shough's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

Ladd McConkey's market-based projection is 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ladd McConkey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 2; standard: ADP 14; 2QB: ADP 35.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 223 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 223 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 5 against MIN he completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

Through Week 4, Ladd McConkey has been on the field for 54 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against LV he caught 3 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 4 of 5 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ladd McConkey played 16 games and scored 180.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing WR30.

He caught 66 of 106 targets for 789 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ladd McConkey was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Ladd McConkey 11.3, 3.6 a game between them.

Tyler Shough finished QB26 and Ladd McConkey WR30, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Shough is a quarterback and Ladd McConkey a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyler Shough is off in Week 8 and Ladd McConkey in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.7 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.