Brock Purdy or Jordan Addison: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brock Purdy at 17.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

The player markets price Jordan Addison at 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Purdy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Addison: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 122 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 122 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 2 against MIA he completed 20 of 22 passes for 287 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 30 yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 297 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 31 yards.

Through Week 4, Jordan Addison has been on the field for 92 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 12.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against CHI he caught 2 of 5 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against TB he caught 5 of 9 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIA he carried 1 time for -1 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 52 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jordan Addison played 14 games and scored 135.1 PPR points, 9.7 a game, finishing WR45.

He caught 42 of 79 targets for 610 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 14.5 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jordan Addison was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Jordan Addison 9.7, 11.2 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Jordan Addison WR45, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Jordan Addison a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Addison is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Brock Purdy.

Jordan Addison is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.7 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.