Start Sam Darnold or Jalen Hurts? Week 6
Start Sam Darnold over Jalen Hurts
Jalen Hurts is listed out, so Sam Darnold starts despite the lower projection.
- Market projects
- 14.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 81%
- 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 Sam Darnold over Jalen Hurts in Week 6.
Jalen Hurts is listed out on the injury report, so this is not a close call: start Sam Darnold.
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 14.6 fantasy points for Sam Darnold, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Sam Darnold is 224 passing yards, 1-2 passing touchdowns, 5 rushing yards and 0.1 rushing touchdowns (14, 14, 13 and 12 market sources).
That puts Jalen Hurts 1.5 points ahead of Sam Darnold 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.
Sam Darnold 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, Sam Darnold played 81 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 110 times and threw an average of 6.7 air yards per attempt.
Sam Darnold, Week 1 against NE: 5 of 50 snaps, 1 of 2 passes for 13 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Sam Darnold, Week 3 against WAS: 67 of 67 snaps, 31 of 45 passes for 379 yards, 4 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 1 carry for 5 yards.
Sam Darnold, Week 4 against LAC: 60 of 60 snaps, 13 of 22 passes for 168 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 8 yards.
Sam Darnold, Week 5 against SF: 63 of 63 snaps, 18 of 29 passes for 195 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions, 1 carry for 5 yards.
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, Sam Darnold played 17 games for SEA and scored 249.4 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing QB13.
He completed 323 of 477 passes for 4048 yards, 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and ran 35 times for 95 yards and 0 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB21 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 124
- Draft pick
- no draft data
- Tier
- 7
Ranked behind
QB26 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 164
- Draft pick
- no draft data
- Tier
- 9
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 board40
- Draft positionno current draft data for both
- Tierstier 7 and tier 9
- Board size326 draftable players
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