Brock Bowers or Ashton Jeanty: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brock Bowers at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The player markets price Ashton Jeanty at 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 33.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ashton Jeanty: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 26.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 24 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 10 of 13 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 4, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 76 percent of LV snaps, taken 70 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 54 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 6 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 1.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against LAC he carried 21 times for 48 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NO he carried 19 times for 56 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against KC he carried 15 times for 58 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty played 17 games and scored 245.1 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing RB11.

He carried 266 times for 975 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 55 of 73 targets for 346 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 3.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ashton Jeanty was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Ashton Jeanty 14.4, 0.3 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 and Ashton Jeanty RB11, which are two different ladders.

Brock Bowers is a tight end and Ashton Jeanty a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Brock Bowers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.3 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.