Brock Purdy or Ollie Gordon: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brock Purdy at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

The player markets price Ollie Gordon at 10.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 221 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 Ollie Gordon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 78th 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, Ollie Gordon has been on the field for 43 percent of MIA snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 3 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Ollie Gordon played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ollie Gordon was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon 3.2, 17.6 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Ollie Gordon RB68, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Ollie Gordon a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

6.7 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.