Cam Ward or Kirk Cousins: who should I start?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:26 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Kirk Cousins, 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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QB26 · TEN · bye 9
2025 vs pass yds line 8-9
- Books price
- 11.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB27 · LV · bye 13
2025 vs pass td line 2-8
- Overall rank
- 163
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 153rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 105.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 168.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Cam Ward at 11.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 69th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
The books have Kirk Cousins at 8.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 17 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kirk Cousins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 39 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 6 of 39 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 1 against NYJ he completed 19 of 32 passes for 140 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 21 yards.
Through Week 1, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 100 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 31 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 2 of 31 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against MIA he completed 21 of 30 passes for 160 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Cam Ward played 17 games and scored 193.7 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing QB22.
He threw for 3169 yards on 540 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 31.8 attempts a game at 5.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Cam Ward was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 0.5 a game between them.
Cam Ward finished QB22 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Cam Ward had 271 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 540 to 269.
Cam Ward had 1448 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 3169 to 1721.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Cam Ward is off in Week 9 and Kirk Cousins in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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