Dak Prescott or Baker Mayfield: 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 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Baker Mayfield, 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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QB2 · DAL · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 21.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB33 · TB · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 8-9
- Overall rank
- 192
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 Dak Prescott: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Baker Mayfield: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 192nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Dak Prescott at 21.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Baker Mayfield, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 167 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 167 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 2 against WAS he completed 26 of 31 passes for 279 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 26 yards.
In Week 3 against BAL he completed 25 of 40 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.
In Week 4 against HOU he completed 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.
Through Week 3, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 98 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 118 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 118 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 1 against CIN he completed 23 of 28 passes for 216 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 31 yards.
In Week 2 against CLE he completed 21 of 34 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 29 yards.
In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.
He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.
He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Baker Mayfield 16.6, 2.4 a game between them.
Dak Prescott finished QB6 that year and Baker Mayfield QB12.
Dak Prescott had 57 more pass attempts than Baker Mayfield, 600 to 543.
Dak Prescott had 859 more passing yards than Baker Mayfield, 4552 to 3693.
This season Dak Prescott holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 98 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Dak Prescott is off in Week 14 and Baker Mayfield in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Baker Mayfield is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Baker Mayfield has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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