Josh Allen 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 11:46 PM ET
Bryce Young is not 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.
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QB1 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 6-0
- Market price
- 22.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- ADP 1
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
- 191
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 has them
Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.
His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.
He appears in 17 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bryce Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 191st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Josh Allen at 22.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 184 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, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 136 times and thrown 9.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 136 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 2 against DET he completed 20 of 31 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 11 times for 72 yards.
In Week 3 against LAC he completed 16 of 26 passes for 204 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 7 times for 23 yards.
In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 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 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 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.
Josh Allen was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Bryce Young 14.3, 7.7 a game between them.
Josh Allen finished QB1 that year and Bryce Young QB19.
Bryce Young had 18 more pass attempts than Josh Allen, 478 to 460.
Josh Allen had 657 more passing yards than Bryce Young, 3668 to 3011.
This season Josh Allen holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 96 percent.
This season Josh Allen holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Josh Allen is off in Week 7 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.
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