Zay Flowers or Chuba Hubbard: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Zay Flowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chuba Hubbard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 213th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Zay Flowers at 14.5 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

No season market is posted for Chuba Hubbard, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 45 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 1 against IND he caught 5 of 6 targets for 150 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against DAL he carried 1 time for 20 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 84 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 118 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Zay Flowers was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Chuba Hubbard 8.4, 6.0 a game between them.

Zay Flowers finished WR7 and Chuba Hubbard RB38, which are two different ladders.

Zay Flowers is a wide receiver and Chuba Hubbard a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13 and Chuba Hubbard in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zay Flowers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Chuba Hubbard has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.