Chuba Hubbard or Fernando Mendoza: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, 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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RB56 · CAR · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Market price
- 16.0 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 210
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
QB37 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 211
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 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 Chuba Hubbard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 210th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Fernando Mendoza: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Chuba Hubbard, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Fernando Mendoza, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Chuba Hubbard has been on the field for 77 percent of CAR snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 4 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have come 1.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 12 times for 53 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against CLE he carried 19 times for 82 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DET he carried 20 times for 122 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Fernando Mendoza this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Chuba Hubbard played 15 games and scored 125.4 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB38.
He carried 134 times for 511 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 39 targets for 223 more yards.
That came to 8.9 carries a game at 3.8 yards a carry and 2.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Chuba Hubbard is a running back and Fernando Mendoza a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Chuba Hubbard is off in Week 5 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
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