Tyler Shough or Alvin Kamara: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Tyler Shough at 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 199 players the market prices.

The player markets price Alvin Kamara at 11.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 199 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Alvin Kamara: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 197 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 197 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 2 against BAL he completed 27 of 34 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 24 yards.

In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

Through Week 4, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 33 percent of NO snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against BAL he carried 9 times for 15 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LV he carried 9 times for 36 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ATL he carried 7 times for 23 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 35 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Alvin Kamara played 11 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing RB46.

He carried 131 times for 471 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 33 of 39 targets for 186 more yards.

That came to 11.9 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 11 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Alvin Kamara 9.2, 5.8 a game between them.

Tyler Shough finished QB26 and Alvin Kamara RB46, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Shough is a quarterback and Alvin Kamara a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyler Shough is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Alvin Kamara.

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

5.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.