Christian McCaffrey 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 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Jacoby Brissett, 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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RB1 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Market price
- 21.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB3 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Market price
- 21.1 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 5
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 2
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 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 Christian McCaffrey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 4th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 7.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacoby Brissett: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Christian McCaffrey at 21.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Jacoby Brissett, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Christian McCaffrey has been on the field for 66 percent of SF snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 8 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 25 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 15 times for 75 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 41 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 15 times for 52 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against SEA he carried 11 times for 68 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 100 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 214 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 33 of 214 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
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.
In Week 5 against DET he completed 29 of 46 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 19 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Christian McCaffrey played 17 games and scored 416.6 PPR points, 24.5 a game, finishing RB1.
He carried 311 times for 1202 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 102 of 129 targets for 924 more yards.
That came to 18.3 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 6.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 83 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.
Christian McCaffrey was available for 3 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Christian McCaffrey scored 24.5 PPR points a game and Jacoby Brissett 16.8, 7.7 a game between them.
Christian McCaffrey finished RB1 and Jacoby Brissett QB16, which are two different ladders.
Christian McCaffrey 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
Christian McCaffrey is off in Week 8 and Jacoby Brissett in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jacoby Brissett has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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