Baker Mayfield or Kirk Cousins: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 4:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Kirk Cousins, 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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QB21 · TB · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 8-9
- Books price
- 15.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB30 · LV · bye 13
2025 vs pass td line 2-8
- Overall rank
- 142
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Baker Mayfield: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 165.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Baker Mayfield at 15.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 35th highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
The books have Kirk Cousins at 13.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kirk Cousins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 100 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 76 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 76 dropbacks and scrambled 7 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.
Through Week 2, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 100 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 63 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 63 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against MIA he completed 21 of 30 passes for 160 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 0 yards.
In Week 2 against LAC he completed 19 of 29 passes for 253 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.
He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Baker Mayfield was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Baker Mayfield scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 5.8 a game between them.
Baker Mayfield finished QB12 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Baker Mayfield had 274 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 543 to 269.
Baker Mayfield had 1972 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 3693 to 1721.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10 and Kirk Cousins in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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