Sam Darnold or Tanner McKee: who should I start 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 Sam Darnold over Tanner McKee
- Market projects
- 14.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 81%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.9
- fantasy pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tanner McKee, 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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QB23 · SEA · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 14.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB25 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 127
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 Sam Darnold: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner McKee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Sam Darnold's market-based projection is 14.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 50th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 14.1 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.
Tanner McKee's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 81 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 110 times and thrown 6.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 22 of 110 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 3 against WAS he completed 31 of 45 passes for 379 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 4 against LAC he completed 13 of 22 passes for 168 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 8 yards.
In Week 5 against SF he completed 18 of 29 passes for 195 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tanner McKee this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Sam Darnold played 17 games and scored 249.4 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing QB13.
He threw for 4048 yards on 477 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and ran for 95 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 28.1 attempts a game at 9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Sam Darnold was available for 13 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Sam Darnold scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 11.0 a game between them.
Sam Darnold finished QB13 that year and Tanner McKee QB55.
Sam Darnold had 434 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 477 to 43.
Sam Darnold had 3774 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 4048 to 274.
Byes and availability
Sam Darnold is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.
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.
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