Should I start Tanner McKee or Rico Dowdle in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 14.0 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 2

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.

Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.

He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 9.0 a game between them.

Tanner McKee finished QB55 and Rico Dowdle RB18, which are two different ladders.

Tanner McKee is a quarterback and Rico Dowdle a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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