C.J. Stroud or Aaron Rodgers: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Aaron Rodgers, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB14 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 16.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB15 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 94
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on C.J. Stroud: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Rodgers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price C.J. Stroud at 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
The market has Aaron Rodgers at 16.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 17 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Aaron Rodgers's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, C.J. Stroud has been on the field for 100 percent of HOU snaps, dropped back 166 times and thrown 10.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 166 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 2 against CIN he completed 30 of 53 passes for 353 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 29 yards.
In Week 3 against IND he completed 16 of 27 passes for 167 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.
In Week 4 against DAL he completed 21 of 29 passes for 347 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
Through Week 4, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 99 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 167 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 167 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 2 against NE he completed 23 of 39 passes for 187 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 3 against CIN he completed 19 of 33 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 12 yards.
In Week 4 against CLE he completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 C.J. Stroud played 14 games and scored 216.5 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing QB21.
He threw for 3041 yards on 423 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 209 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.2 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.
He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Aaron Rodgers was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 C.J. Stroud scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Aaron Rodgers 14.6, 0.8 a game between them.
C.J. Stroud finished QB21 that year and Aaron Rodgers QB18.
Aaron Rodgers had 75 more pass attempts than C.J. Stroud, 498 to 423.
Aaron Rodgers had 281 more passing yards than C.J. Stroud, 3322 to 3041.
This season C.J. Stroud holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 99 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
C.J. Stroud is off in Week 8 and Aaron Rodgers in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Aaron Rodgers is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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