Start Kirk Cousins or Justin Herbert? Week 6
Start Kirk Cousins over Justin Herbert
- Market projects
- 15.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.8
- fantasy pts
- KC D vs QB
- 13.4
- 3rd fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Kirk Cousins over Justin Herbert in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Kirk Cousins at 15.5 points and Justin Herbert at 13.8, a gap of 1.7.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 15.5 fantasy points for Kirk Cousins, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 252 passing yards, 1-2 passing touchdowns, 2 rushing yards and 0.1 rushing touchdowns (13, 15, 7 and 14 market sources).
Player markets imply 13.8 fantasy points for Justin Herbert, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Justin Herbert is 194 passing yards, 25 rushing yards and 0.2 rushing touchdowns (13, 13 and 13 market sources).
That puts Kirk Cousins 1.7 points ahead of Justin Herbert on the market projections.
Week 6 matchups
Justin Herbert and LAC visit KC on Sunday at 4:25 PM ET.
KC allowed 13.4 fantasy points a game to QBs this season over 4 games, the 3rd fewest in the league.
Quarterbacks threw for 229 yards and a touchdown a game against KC, with an interception.
Injury status
Kirk Cousins is not on the injury report.
Justin Herbert is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
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.
Through Week 5, Justin Herbert played 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 175 times and threw an average of 8.5 air yards per attempt.
Justin Herbert, Week 2 against LV: 68 of 68 snaps, 15 of 27 passes for 192 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions, 3 carries for 2 yards.
Justin Herbert, Week 3 against BUF: 69 of 69 snaps, 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 4 carries for 17 yards.
Justin Herbert, Week 4 against SEA: 71 of 71 snaps, 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions, 6 carries for 40 yards.
Justin Herbert, Week 5 against DEN: 67 of 67 snaps, 14 of 23 passes for 121 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 6 carries for 54 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025, Justin Herbert played 16 games for LAC and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.
He completed 340 of 512 passes for 3727 yards, 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran 83 times for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB18 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 111
- Draft pick
- no draft data
- Tier
- 6
Ranked behind
QB25 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 147
- Draft pick
- no draft data
- Tier
- 8
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
- Draft positionno current draft data for both
- Tierstier 6 and tier 8
- Board size326 draftable players
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