Jalen Hurts or Bryce Young: 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 9:26 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Bryce Young, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
QB23 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 15.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB32 · CAR · on bye this week
2026 vs pass yds line 4-0
- Market price
- 17.2 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 188
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
Make this call for your own roster
Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.
Or get it by email
Tuesday 8am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.
Free. One a week, one tap to stop.
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 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 Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bryce Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Jalen Hurts at 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Bryce Young, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 98 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 137 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 137 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 2 against TEN he completed 26 of 37 passes for 264 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 5 times for 16 yards.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
Through Week 4, Bryce Young has been on the field for 96 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 2 against ATL he completed 23 of 36 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.
In Week 3 against CLE he completed 26 of 47 passes for 291 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.
He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 16 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Bryce Young 14.3, 4.8 a game between them.
Jalen Hurts finished QB8 that year and Bryce Young QB19.
Bryce Young had 24 more pass attempts than Jalen Hurts, 478 to 454.
Jalen Hurts had 213 more passing yards than Bryce Young, 3224 to 3011.
This season Jalen Hurts holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 96 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10 and Bryce Young in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Bryce Young has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Drafting soon? Use the free live draft assistant
It reranks the board after every pick and shows who is falling past ADP at your slot. No sign in, nothing to install.
Open the draft assistant
