Justin Herbert or Colston Loveland: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Justin Herbert at 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The player markets price Colston Loveland at 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 13.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 44.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 144 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 144 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.

In Week 2 against LV he completed 15 of 27 passes for 192 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 2 yards.

In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.

In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.

Through Week 4, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 87 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.

He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 8.4 a game between them.

Justin Herbert finished QB10 and Colston Loveland TE12, which are two different ladders.

Justin Herbert is a quarterback and Colston Loveland a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Justin Herbert is off in Week 7 and Colston Loveland in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.0 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.