Start Kirk Cousins or Jalen Hurts? Week 6
Start Kirk Cousins over Jalen Hurts
- Market projects
- 15.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 16.1
- recent weeks avg
- CAR D vs QB
- 20.1
- 8th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 99%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Kirk Cousins over Jalen Hurts in Week 6.
Jalen Hurts is listed out on the injury report, so this is not a close call: start Kirk Cousins.
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What the market projects
No Week 6 player market is posted for Jalen Hurts yet. His market-based projections were 19.4, 14.1 and 14.8 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 16.1, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.
Player markets imply 15.2 fantasy points for Kirk Cousins, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 246 passing yards, 1-2 passing touchdowns and 2 rushing yards, with a 6% chance to score a touchdown (13, 14, 8 and 13 market sources).
That puts Jalen Hurts 0.9 points ahead of Kirk Cousins on these projections.
Week 6 matchups
Jalen Hurts and PHI host CAR on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
CAR allowed 20.1 fantasy points a game to QBs this season over 4 games, the 8th most in the league.
Quarterbacks threw for 243 yards and 1.3 touchdowns a game against CAR, with 0.8 interceptions.
Injury status
Jalen Hurts is listed as out with a calf injury.
Kirk Cousins is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts played 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and threw an average of 7.5 air yards per attempt.
Jalen Hurts, Week 2 against TEN: 76 of 76 snaps, 26 of 37 passes for 264 yards, 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 5 carries for 16 yards.
Jalen Hurts, Week 3 against CHI: 46 of 50 snaps, 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 4 carries for 25 yards.
Jalen Hurts, Week 4 against LAR: 61 of 61 snaps, 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 5 carries for 18 yards.
Jalen Hurts, Week 5 against JAX: 62 of 62 snaps, 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 2 carries for 2 yards.
Through Week 5, Kirk Cousins played 97 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 180 times and threw an average of 8.3 air yards per attempt.
Kirk Cousins, Week 2 against LAC: 63 of 63 snaps, 19 of 29 passes for 253 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 4 yards.
Kirk Cousins, Week 3 against NO: 70 of 70 snaps, 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 5 yards.
Kirk Cousins, Week 4 against KC: 84 of 84 snaps, 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Kirk Cousins, Week 5 against NE: 50 of 60 snaps, 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Jalen Hurts played 16 games for PHI and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He completed 294 of 454 passes for 3224 yards, 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran 105 times for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
In 2025, Kirk Cousins played 10 games for ATL and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.
He completed 166 of 269 passes for 1721 yards, 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran 14 times for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB20 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 112
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
Ranked behind
QB27 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 148
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board36
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 5 and tier 7
- Board size210 draftable players
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