Chase Brown or Aaron Jones Sr.: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chase Brown: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 8th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 19.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Jones Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Chase Brown at 18.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Aaron Jones Sr. at 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

Chase Brown's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Chase Brown has been on the field for 73 percent of CIN snaps, taken 72 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 3 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 20 times for 80 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 13 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 9 times for 10 yards, caught 11 of 11 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 69 percent of MIN snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CHI he carried 23 times for 105 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against TB he carried 17 times for 58 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIA he carried 20 times for 94 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chase Brown played 17 games and scored 282.6 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing RB7.

He carried 232 times for 1019 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 69 of 88 targets for 437 more yards.

That came to 13.6 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 4.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Aaron Jones Sr. played 12 games and scored 118.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing RB41.

He carried 132 times for 548 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 28 of 41 targets for 199 more yards.

That came to 11.0 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 6.7 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and Aaron Jones Sr. RB41.

Chase Brown had 100 more carries than Aaron Jones Sr., 232 to 132.

Chase Brown had 41 more catches than Aaron Jones Sr., 69 to 28.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger snap share, 73 percent against 69 percent.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger share of the carries, 72 percent against 65 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Chase Brown is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.