Lamar Jackson or Brandon Aubrey: 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 7:11 PM ET
Lamar Jackson is the start on the latest market price, 19.0 points to Brandon Aubrey's 8.5, with Lamar Jackson on the market figure from his Week 4 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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QB30 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 19.0 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 182
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
K1 · DAL · bye 14
- Market price
- 8.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size218 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 Lamar Jackson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 3.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Brandon Aubrey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 183rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 24; 2QB: ADP 53.
What the player markets price
The market has Lamar Jackson at 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Brandon Aubrey at 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.
Lamar Jackson's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 88 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 2 against NO he completed 21 of 30 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 34 yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he completed 15 of 20 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 50 yards.
In Week 4 against TEN he completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 20 yards.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Brandon Aubrey this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.
He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 92 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Brandon Aubrey played 17 games and scored 180.6 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing K3.
Brandon Aubrey was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Lamar Jackson scored 17.1 PPR points a game and Brandon Aubrey 10.6, 6.4 a game between them.
Lamar Jackson finished QB20 and Brandon Aubrey K3, which are two different ladders.
Lamar Jackson is a quarterback and Brandon Aubrey a kicker, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Lamar Jackson is off in Week 13 and Brandon Aubrey in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Lamar Jackson is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Lamar Jackson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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