Should I start Ladd McConkey or Tyson Bagent in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 9:46 AM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Tyson Bagent: 63 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ladd McConkey's 56 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Ladd McConkey

WR40 · LAC · bye 7

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Market-based projection: 9.0 pts a game

Tyson Bagent

QB16 · CHI · bye 10

Market-based projection: 15.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank: 104

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The gap

Board size326 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ladd McConkey, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyson Bagent, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Ladd McConkey's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Tyson Bagent, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 5, Tyson Bagent has been on the field for 63 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 70 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 5 of 8 passes for 54 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 4 against NYJ he completed 25 of 34 passes for 268 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against GB he completed 12 of 21 passes for 87 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 17 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Tyson Bagent played 3 games and scored 2.6 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing QB67.

He threw for 47 yards on 4 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 1.3 attempts a game at 11.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ladd McConkey was available for 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Ladd McConkey scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Tyson Bagent 0.9, 10.4 a game between them.

Ladd McConkey finished WR30 and Tyson Bagent QB67, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Ladd McConkey is off in Week 7 and Tyson Bagent in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Tyson Bagent has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.