Start Kirk Cousins or Tanner McKee? Week 6
Start Kirk Cousins over Tanner McKee
- Market projects
- 15.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 14.2
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 6 call
Start Kirk Cousins over Tanner McKee in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Kirk Cousins at 15.4 points and Tanner McKee at 14.2, a gap of 1.3. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 15.4 fantasy points for Kirk Cousins, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 250 passing yards, 1-2 passing touchdowns, 2 rushing yards and 0.1 rushing touchdowns (13, 14, 8 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 14.2 fantasy points for Tanner McKee, with 90 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 200 passing yards, 9 rushing yards and 0.1 rushing touchdowns (12, 12 and 13 market sources).
That puts Kirk Cousins 1.3 points ahead of Tanner McKee on the market projections.
Injury status
Kirk Cousins is not on the injury report.
Tanner McKee 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.
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, 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
QB21 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 115
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
QB26 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 136
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
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 board21
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 4
- Board size316 draftable players
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