Blake Corum or Matthew Stafford: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Corum: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Stafford: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Blake Corum at 11.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 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 market has Matthew Stafford at 23.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Blake Corum has been on the field for 27 percent of LAR snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

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.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 5 times for 19 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 97 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 224 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 224 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against DEN he completed 30 of 53 passes for 390 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he completed 32 of 51 passes for 317 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

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 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.

He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 13.9 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 and Matthew Stafford QB3, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.