Nico Collins or Matthew Stafford: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Nico Collins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Stafford: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Nico Collins's market-based projection is 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 23.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Nico Collins has been on the field for 71 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 12.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against BUF he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 7 of 10 targets for 75 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 7 of 8 targets for 118 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 5 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 97 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 224 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 224 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against DEN he completed 30 of 53 passes for 390 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he completed 32 of 51 passes for 317 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Nico Collins played 15 games and scored 226.2 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing WR8.

He caught 71 of 120 targets for 1117 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 8.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 15.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.

He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Matthew Stafford was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Nico Collins 15.1, 6.0 a game between them.

Nico Collins finished WR8 and Matthew Stafford QB3, which are two different ladders.

Nico Collins is a wide receiver and Matthew Stafford a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Nico Collins is off in Week 8 and Matthew Stafford in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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