Justin Herbert

Los Angeles Chargers QB 17

Week 6 at KC

Wk 6 -- Read as the page opens

Rest of season 148.1 from week 6, QB17 in our order

Opp rank -- at KC

Avg 10.7 a game in 5 games

Last 10.2 week 5 vs DEN

Δ Proj --

This season 2026, PPR, through week 5

Justin Herbert week by week, 2026
Wk	Opp	the week's projection	PPR points	completions of attempts	passing yards	passing touchdowns	interceptions	carries	rushing yards	rushing touchdowns	fumbles lost
1	vs ARI	--	13.3	17/27	209	1	1	5	29	0	0
2	vs LV	--	7.9	15/27	192	1	2	3	2	0	0
3	at BUF	--	12.7	20/34	226	1	1	4	17	0	0
4	at SEA	--	9.6	19/31	189	1	2	6	40	0	1
5	vs DEN	--	10.2	14/24	121	1	1	6	54	0	1
Season5 games, 10.7 a game			53.7	85/143	937	5	7	24	142	0	2

202516 games, 17.8 a game			284.9	340/512	3,727	26	13	83	498	2	2
202417 games, 16.4 a game			279.4	332/504	3,870	23	3	69	306	2	2
202313 games, 17.9 a game			232.2	297/456	3,134	20	7	52	228	3	1

Still to play

Wk 6 at KC Sun Oct 18
Wk 7 Bye
Wk 8 at LAR Sun Nov 1
Wk 9 vs HOU Sun Nov 8
Wk 10 at BAL Mon Nov 16
Wk 11 vs NYJ Sun Nov 22
Wk 12 vs NE Sun Nov 29
Wk 13 at TB Sun Dec 6
Wk 14 at LV Sun Dec 13
Wk 15 vs SF Thu Dec 17
Wk 16 at MIA Sun Dec 27
Wk 17 vs KC Sun Jan 3
Wk 18 at DEN Sun Jan 10

Our read

Written Oct 17, from his facts through last season

The tracking numbers are the case, and they are ugly. He has been pressured on 28% of his 175 dropbacks through week 5 of 2026, and blitzed on 25% of all 175 charted dropbacks, and when he does get a throw off, he is completing the ball 2.8 percentage points below expectation over 143 tracked attempts. That ranks QB30 among the 35 quarterbacks with 50 or more tracked attempts. For a quarterback we had QB8 before the season, that is the whole problem in two sentences.

Rest of season148.1PPR points from week 6

Preseason projection261projected PPR points

The context softens it a little. Mike McDaniel is calling plays for him for the first time this year, and new systems have taken more than five weeks to click for better offenses than this. He has also missed nothing. Five games played, no injury designation since before week 1 of 2026, and a full 16 game season behind him in 2025 at 17.8 points a game. So this is not a body problem or an availability problem. It is an accuracy and protection problem, and both have been real: 10.7 points a game against our preseason pace of 17.4, with only five touchdowns on 937 passing yards.

Where that leaves you is a hold with a deadline. We put 261 points on him for the season, and that number assumed the 2025 version. If the completion number has not climbed back toward zero by around week 9 of 2026, we would stop defending the ranking. Until then, benching him for a waiver arm costs you more than riding this out.