Tyler Shough or Bo Nix: 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 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Tyler Shough, 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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QB9 · NO · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-0
- Overall rank
- 76
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
QB13 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 16.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 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 Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 25.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Tyler Shough at 17.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Bo Nix at 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 28th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
Tyler Shough's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 197 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 197 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 2 against BAL he completed 27 of 34 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 24 yards.
In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
Through Week 4, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 143 times and thrown 5.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 143 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against JAX he completed 22 of 31 passes for 288 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 9 yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he completed 17 of 34 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 7 yards.
In Week 4 against SF he completed 25 of 42 passes for 214 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.
He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.
He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.
That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Bo Nix was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Tyler Shough 14.9, 3.7 a game between them.
Tyler Shough finished QB26 that year and Bo Nix QB7.
Bo Nix had 285 more pass attempts than Tyler Shough, 612 to 327.
Bo Nix had 1547 more passing yards than Tyler Shough, 3931 to 2384.
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
Tyler Shough is off in Week 8 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tyler Shough is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Tyler Shough is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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