Should I start Tyjae Spears or Tanner McKee in Week 6?

Where the draft room has them

Tyjae Spears goes at ADP 12, an average pick of 128.8, and the board has him RB40 in tier 14.

His earliest recorded pick is 89 and his latest 155, a standard deviation of 15.0 picks.

He appears in 117 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 80.

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.

The market-based projections

Tyjae Spears's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 13.9 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, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 44 percent of TEN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 2.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 3 times for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 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.

Tyjae Spears was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 4.9 a game between them.

Tyjae Spears finished RB44 and Tanner McKee QB55, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

Tyjae Spears 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.