Our Week 6 All-Stars might be the most random list of players we’ll have in our weekly All-Star series this season.
Three passers made our All-Star team this week despite losing efforts. The AFC South, widely viewed as one of the NFL’s worst divisions, also has plenty of representation on this week’s All-Star team, with three Tennessee Titans players making the cut after their first win of the season. The battle for the quarterback spot was also between a pair of AFC South rivals.
However, we do have one player who remains a mainstay on this list: Kansas City Chiefs running back Kenneth Walker III. For the fourth time this season, Walker has been named one of our weekly stars as he continues to dominate in his first year in Kansas City. Can he get back on the list when he faces his former team next week?
We won’t know that answer until next Tuesday. So let’s take a deeper dive into our Week 6 stars.
The top two picks were both in London, and Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence had four touchdown passes to CJ Stroud’s three. But the Houston Texans flew home with the win, so he gets the nod. Stroud threw for 312 yards, including 34 on three passes to newly acquired Marvin Harrison.
New England Patriots star Drake Maye threw three touchdowns, but he won this spot two weeks in a row, and it was against the New York Jets. Houston, meanwhile, has won two straight after starting 0-4, so the head-to-head tie is huge as it tries to catch up with Jacksonville.
Kenneth Walker is a regular here, and he was an easy call, rushing for 128 yards and two scores in the Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the Los Angeles Chargers. He already had his bye week and still leads the NFL in rushing. He is now on pace for 2,261 yards, putting him on track to set the NFL’s single-season rushing record.
We could have gone with Buffalo Bills star James Cook for the No. 2 spot, but Chuba Hubbard stepped up for the Carolina Panthers, rushing for 120 yards and a touchdown in their win over the Philadelphia Eagles. Hubbard went all of last year without a 100-yard game, but now has 120-plus in two straight weeks.
It was a tough week for wide receivers, with many of the best performances coming on losses and almost none with more than a touchdown. Malik Nabers got most of his yards in that thrilling fourth quarter when JJ McCarthy threw for 243 yards, but he finished with 12 receptions for 165 yards in a monster game as the New York Giants nearly pulled off a wild comeback against the New Orleans Saints.
Seattle Seahawks star Jaxon Smith-Njigba is here all the time, so 134 yards and zero touchdowns won’t do it this week. Instead, we’ll give another effort for a loss to Tre Tucker, who had 97 yards and two touchdowns as the Las Vegas Raiders tried to rally against Buffalo.
I shamelessly took this one, posting a poll on the X with four compelling candidates and Isaiah Likely’s 99 yards and a touchdown in an easily won loss. This continues to be the Year of the Tight End, so you have two days of meetings from Carolina’s Tommy Tremble, Atlanta Falcons standout Kyle Pitts and Houston Texans veteran Foster Moreau. We also strongly considered Colston Loveland going for 65 and a score in the Chicago Bears win.
This is another week where we can do our version of 12 personnel and recognize two tight ends at the expense of a second receiver.
OL: New Orleans Saints
Little surprise here, but New Orleans gave up zero sacks and just two tackles for loss on 68 snaps against a vaunted Giants defensive front. The Saints also led the way for 175 rushing yards on 38 carries, so back the starting five (lr) of Asim Richards, David Edwards, Erik McCoy, Cesar Ruiz and Taliese Fuaga. They actually played eight OLs, with rookie Jeremiah Wright playing more than Ruiz (knee injury) and two other backups who were delayed.
Seven teams didn’t give up a single sack, so tough competition this week.
Easy week for the defensive front, and really, how often can we put the Titans here? Jeffery Simmons had two sacks, a forced fumble and fumble recovery and six total tackles in the Titans’ win over the Colts. Nick Herbig got his first two sacks of 2026, part of a five-stop day for the Pittsburgh Steelers in their comeback win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. If the Bucs had won, we could have gone with cornerback A’Shawn Robinson, who has two picks this year after reaching one in his NFL career before this season.
The Cleveland Browns are proving themselves with every win and a division win over the Baltimore Ravens was heavily driven by the defense. Carson Schwesinger had 13 tackles and a forced fumble, and that forced fumble came off a Derrick Henry carry in the fourth quarter. That set up the equalizer.
Schwesinger’s league-leading five in touchdowns in his second season and already a key leader on a Browns defense that is ninth in points allowed. We could have gone with Denver’s Alex Singleton at the heart of the Broncos’ big win against the Seahawks.
If I were truly a company man, I would have done a rare duet with the Bears’ Kyler Gordon and the Steelers’ Jalen Ramsey, then done FOX’s Gordon Ramsay sketch show. I think the different spelling scared me though. But Gordon had three sacks and two forced fumbles on 17 snaps, while Ramsey had two sacks, including one on the final play in overtime.
However, we’ll give that spot this week to Travis Hunter, who did something that hasn’t been done in a game since 2002. Hunter had an interception and a touchdown in the fourth quarter in the Jaguars’ loss in London to the Texans, becoming the first player to do so in a game since Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins.
Wait, more Titans? I can’t stop watching the blocked punt that sealed the Titans’ first win of 2026. The snap pushed Indianapolis Colts safety Jonathan Owens (that’s Simone Biles’ husband) back so completely that Owens blocked Rigoberto Sanchez’s punt and Oladejo took the loose ball and returned it to the first quarter for the free ball.
Tennessee trailed 13-0 at one point and won despite just 186 yards of total offense, the second-fewest in 92 wins in the entire NFL this season.
