Start Tyson Bagent or Michael Penix Jr.? Week 6
Start Michael Penix Jr. over Tyson Bagent
- Market projects
- 15.4
- fantasy pts
- Market projects
- 14.5
- recent weeks avg
- ATL D vs QB
- 19.1
- 13th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 63%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Michael Penix Jr. over Tyson Bagent in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Michael Penix Jr. at 15.4 points and Tyson Bagent at 14.5, a gap of 1.0. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for Tyson Bagent this week yet, so his 14.5 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (10.6, 17.0 and 15.8); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 15.4 fantasy points for Michael Penix Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Michael Penix Jr. is 237 passing yards, 1-2 passing touchdowns, 3 rushing yards and 0.1 rushing touchdowns (7, 13, 8 and 13 market sources).
No Week 6 player market is posted for Tyson Bagent yet. His market-based projections were 10.6, 17.0 and 15.8 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 14.5, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.
That puts Michael Penix Jr. 1.0 points ahead of Tyson Bagent on these projections.
Week 6 matchups
Tyson Bagent and CHI visit ATL on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
ATL allowed 19.1 fantasy points a game to QBs this season over 5 games, the 13th most in the league.
Quarterbacks threw for 261 yards and 1.8 touchdowns a game against ATL, with 0.2 interceptions.
Injury status
Michael Penix Jr. is not on the injury report.
Tyson Bagent is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Tyson Bagent played 63 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and threw an average of 6.9 air yards per attempt.
Tyson Bagent, Week 2 against MIN: 10 of 74 snaps, 5 of 8 passes for 54 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Tyson Bagent, Week 4 against NYJ: 93 of 93 snaps, 25 of 34 passes for 268 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 4 yards.
Tyson Bagent, Week 5 against GB: 46 of 69 snaps, 12 of 21 passes for 87 yards, 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 3 carries for 17 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Tyson Bagent played 3 games for CHI and scored 2.6 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing QB67.
He completed 3 of 4 passes for 47 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran 2 times for 7 yards and 0 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 1 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB17 · CHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 111
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
Ranked behind
QB18 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 4-5
- Overall rank
- 119
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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 board8
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 6
- Board size317 draftable players
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