Start Tanner McKee or Jalen Hurts? Week 6
Start Tanner McKee over Jalen Hurts
- Market projects
- 14.1
- fantasy pts
- 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 Tanner McKee over Jalen Hurts in Week 6.
Jalen Hurts is listed out on the injury report, so this is not a close call: start Tanner McKee. Market coverage on Tanner McKee is 70 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
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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 14.1 fantasy points for Tanner McKee, with 70 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 191 passing yards, with a 18% chance to score a touchdown (12 and 4 market sources).
That puts Jalen Hurts 2.0 points ahead of Tanner McKee 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.
Tanner McKee 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.
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, Tanner McKee played 4 games for PHI and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.
He completed 24 of 43 passes for 274 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran 8 times for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 3 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Tanner McKee, Week 18 of 2025 against WAS: 21 of 40 passes for 241 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 2 carries for 3 yards, 12.9 PPR points.
Tanner McKee, Week 16 of 2025 against WAS: 4 of 70 snaps, 0 of 0 passes for 0 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 2 carries for -2 yards, -0.2 PPR points.
Tanner McKee, Week 15 of 2025 against LV: 17 of 69 snaps, 3 of 3 passes for 33 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 9 yards, 2.2 PPR points.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB25 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 127
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
Ranked behind
QB28 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 151
- 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 board24
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 6 and tier 7
- Board size222 draftable players
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