Should I start Tyson Bagent or Michael Penix Jr. 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 Michael Penix Jr. over Tyson Bagent
- Market projects
- 15.4
- fantasy pts
- Market projects
- 14.5
- recent weeks avg
- ATL D vs QB
- 19.1
- 13th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 63%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tyson Bagent, 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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QB17 · CHI · bye 10
- Market-based projection
- 15.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 105
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
QB19 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 4-5
- Market-based projection
- 15.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 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 Tyson Bagent: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Penix Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Tyson Bagent, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Michael Penix Jr.'s market-based projection is 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Michael Penix Jr. has been on the field for 98 percent of ATL snaps, dropped back 83 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 83 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 3 against GB he completed 18 of 25 passes for 256 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
In Week 4 against NO he completed 15 of 20 passes for 223 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
In Week 5 against BAL he completed 19 of 32 passes for 240 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. played 9 games and scored 123.3 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB33.
He threw for 1982 yards on 276 attempts with 9 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 70 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.7 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Michael Penix Jr. was available for 6 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. scored 13.7 PPR points a game and Tyson Bagent 0.9, 12.8 a game between them.
Tyson Bagent finished QB67 that year and Michael Penix Jr. QB33.
Michael Penix Jr. had 272 more pass attempts than Tyson Bagent, 276 to 4.
Michael Penix Jr. had 1935 more passing yards than Tyson Bagent, 1982 to 47.
This season Michael Penix Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 63 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Tyson Bagent is off in Week 10 and Michael Penix Jr. in Week 11, 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.
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