Dak Prescott or Kirk Cousins: 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 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM ET
Dak Prescott is the start on the latest market price, 21.8 points to Kirk Cousins's 15.8. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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QB2 · DAL · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 21.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB21 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 107
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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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 Dak Prescott: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Dak Prescott at 21.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
The market has Kirk Cousins at 15.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kirk Cousins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 167 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 167 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 2 against WAS he completed 26 of 31 passes for 279 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 26 yards.
In Week 3 against BAL he completed 25 of 40 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.
In Week 4 against HOU he completed 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.
Through Week 4, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 100 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 149 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 149 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against LAC he completed 19 of 29 passes for 253 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
In Week 3 against NO he completed 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.
He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.
He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Dak Prescott was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 8.2 a game between them.
Dak Prescott finished QB6 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Dak Prescott had 331 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 600 to 269.
Dak Prescott had 2831 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 4552 to 1721.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Dak Prescott is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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