Bucky Irving or Jacoby Brissett: 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 9, 2026 at 2:41 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Bucky Irving, 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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RB22 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 4-1
- Market price
- 11.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 62
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
QB7 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Market price
- 17.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size258 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacoby Brissett: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Bucky Irving, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Jacoby Brissett at 17.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 200 players the market prices.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 62 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against CLE he carried 17 times for 89 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 1 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against MIN he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 100 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 162 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 162 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 2 against SEA he completed 17 of 28 passes for 95 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 7 yards.
In Week 3 against SF he completed 38 of 51 passes for 280 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 4 yards.
In Week 4 against NYG he completed 21 of 35 passes for 166 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 4 times for 18 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.
He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.
That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jacoby Brissett played 14 games and scored 235.4 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB16.
He threw for 3366 yards on 485 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 168 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 34.6 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jacoby Brissett was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jacoby Brissett scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Bucky Irving 13.9, 3.0 a game between them.
Bucky Irving finished RB34 and Jacoby Brissett QB16, which are two different ladders.
Bucky Irving is a running back and Jacoby Brissett a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Bucky Irving is off in Week 10 and Jacoby Brissett in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Bucky Irving has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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