Dak Prescott or Zay Flowers: who should I start in Week 5?

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 184 players the market prices.

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.

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

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, 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.

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 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Zay Flowers 14.3, 4.7 a game between them.

Dak Prescott finished QB6 and Zay Flowers WR7, which are two different ladders.

Dak Prescott is a quarterback and Zay Flowers a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dak Prescott is off in Week 14 and Zay Flowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zay Flowers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.2 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.