Aaron Rodgers or Justin Herbert: 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 10:31 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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QB15 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 94
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
QB18 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 16.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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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 Aaron Rodgers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 13.
What the player markets price
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.
The player markets price Justin Herbert at 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
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, 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.
Through Week 4, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 144 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 144 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.
In Week 2 against LV he completed 15 of 27 passes for 192 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 2 yards.
In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.
In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.
He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 16 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Aaron Rodgers 14.6, 4.1 a game between them.
Aaron Rodgers finished QB18 that year and Justin Herbert QB10.
Justin Herbert had 14 more pass attempts than Aaron Rodgers, 512 to 498.
Justin Herbert had 405 more passing yards than Aaron Rodgers, 3727 to 3322.
This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 99 percent.
This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Aaron Rodgers is off in Week 9 and Justin Herbert in Week 7, 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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