Blake Corum or Justin Herbert: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Corum: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 13.

What the player markets price

The market has Blake Corum at 7.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Justin Herbert at 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

Blake Corum's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Blake Corum has been on the field for 27 percent of LAR snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against NYG he carried 12 times for 79 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against DEN he carried 6 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 5 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 144 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 144 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.

In Week 2 against LV he completed 15 of 27 passes for 192 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 2 yards.

In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.

In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8.5 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.

He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Blake Corum was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 11.6 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 and Justin Herbert QB10, which are two different ladders.

Blake Corum is a running back and Justin Herbert a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Blake Corum is off in Week 11 and Justin Herbert in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Blake Corum is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.