Cam Ward or Troy Franklin: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Cam Ward at 11.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.

The player markets price Troy Franklin at 4.2 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 159th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 162nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 46.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 135 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 17 of 135 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 2 against PHI he completed 13 of 20 passes for 183 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 7 yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he completed 23 of 36 passes for 181 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 4 against BAL he completed 20 of 31 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 27 yards.

Through Week 4, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 30 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 18.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

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 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 1.0 a game between them.

Cam Ward finished QB22 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

Cam Ward is a quarterback and Troy Franklin a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Cam Ward is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Troy Franklin.

What would change the answer

7.5 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.