Kirk Cousins 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
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.
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QB27 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 14.4 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
- 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 stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.
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 Kirk Cousins at 14.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 48th 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, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 100 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 149 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 149 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against LAC he completed 19 of 29 passes for 253 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
In Week 3 against NO he completed 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
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 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.
He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 46 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.
Bryce Young was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 3.5 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 that year and Bryce Young QB19.
Bryce Young had 209 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 478 to 269.
Bryce Young had 1290 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 3011 to 1721.
This season Kirk Cousins holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 96 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Bryce Young is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.
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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