James Cook III or Ashton Jeanty: 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 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM ET
Week 5 verdict
Start James Cook III over Ashton Jeanty
Right: 22.8 to 10.7
- Market projected
- 14.6
- pre-game
- LAR D vs RB
- 15.5
- 3rd fewest to RBs (2026)
- Scored
- 22.8
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 14.4
- pre-game
- NE D vs RB
- 20.9
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Target share
- 17%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 10.7
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Ashton Jeanty, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
RB14 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Market price
- 14.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB15 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs carries line 3-2
- Market price
- 14.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 35
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size292 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on James Cook III: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 2; 2QB: ADP 10.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Ashton Jeanty: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 25.
What the player markets price
The player markets price James Cook III at 14.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 5th highest figure of the 22 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Ashton Jeanty, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, James Cook III has been on the field for 68 percent of BUF snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 4 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against DET he carried 21 times for 135 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against LAC he carried 24 times for 154 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 12 times for 75 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 76 percent of LV snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 47 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 7 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.
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.
In Week 5 against NE he carried 10 times for 27 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 50 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 James Cook III played 17 games and scored 302.2 PPR points, 17.8 a game, finishing RB6.
He carried 309 times for 1621 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 291 more yards.
That came to 18.2 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 60 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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 James Cook III scored 17.8 PPR points a game and Ashton Jeanty 14.4, 3.4 a game between them.
James Cook III finished RB6 that year and Ashton Jeanty RB11.
James Cook III had 43 more carries than Ashton Jeanty, 309 to 266.
Ashton Jeanty had 22 more catches than James Cook III, 55 to 33.
This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 68 percent.
This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger share of the carries, 68 percent against 67 percent.
Byes and availability
James Cook III is off in Week 7 and Ashton Jeanty in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Ashton Jeanty has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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