Start Sam Darnold or Marcus Mariota? Week 6
Start Sam Darnold over Marcus Mariota
- Market projects
- 14.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 81%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.6
- recent weeks avg
- SF D vs QB
- 13.7
- 5th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 54%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 6 call
Start Sam Darnold over Marcus Mariota in Week 6.
Marcus Mariota is listed doubtful on the injury report, so this is not a close call: start Sam Darnold.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 14.4 fantasy points for Sam Darnold, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Sam Darnold is 221 passing yards, 1-2 passing touchdowns and 5 rushing yards, with a 8% chance to score a touchdown (13, 14, 13 and 12 market sources).
No Week 6 player market is posted for Marcus Mariota yet. His market-based projections were 14.4 and 12.8 points in Weeks 3 and 4, an average of 13.6, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.
That puts Sam Darnold 0.9 points ahead of Marcus Mariota on these projections.
Week 6 matchups
Marcus Mariota and WAS visit SF on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.
SF allowed 13.7 fantasy points a game to QBs this season over 5 games, the 5th fewest in the league.
Quarterbacks threw for 211 yards and a touchdown a game against SF, with 0.6 interceptions.
Injury status
Sam Darnold is not on the injury report.
Marcus Mariota is listed as doubtful with a knee - mcl injury.
Usage before Week 6
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.
Through Week 4, Marcus Mariota played 54 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 57 times and threw an average of 8.9 air yards per attempt.
Marcus Mariota, Week 2 against DAL: 32 of 71 snaps, 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 3 yards.
Marcus Mariota, Week 3 against SEA: 69 of 69 snaps, 19 of 31 passes for 183 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 3 carries for 13 yards.
Marcus Mariota, Week 4 against IND: 10 of 64 snaps, 3 of 4 passes for 46 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 35 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025, Marcus Mariota played 11 games for WAS and scored 132.5 PPR points, 12.0 a game, finishing QB32.
He completed 139 of 227 passes for 1695 yards, 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran 50 times for 297 yards and 1 touchdown.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB24 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 121
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
Ranked behind
QB · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-10
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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 boardone of them is not on the board
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersnot tiered
- Board size202 draftable players
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