Justin Herbert or Daniel Jones: 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 9:41 PM ET
The market prices Justin Herbert 0.7 points a game ahead of Daniel Jones this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market price is the live read on these two.
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QB18 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 16.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB25 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 15.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.7 points a game
- 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.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Justin Herbert at 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
The player markets price Daniel Jones at 15.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 183 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 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 13.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Daniel Jones: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.
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, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 100 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 144 times and thrown 5.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 25 of 144 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 2 against KC he completed 22 of 31 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 10 yards.
In Week 3 against HOU he completed 24 of 36 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 5 yards.
In Week 4 against WAS he completed 19 of 34 passes for 143 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
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 Daniel Jones played 13 games and scored 234.4 PPR points, 18.0 a game, finishing QB17.
He threw for 3101 yards on 384 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 164 yards and 5 touchdowns.
That came to 29.5 attempts a game at 8.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Justin Herbert was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Daniel Jones 18.0, 0.7 a game between them.
Justin Herbert finished QB10 that year and Daniel Jones QB17.
Justin Herbert had 128 more pass attempts than Daniel Jones, 512 to 384.
Justin Herbert had 626 more passing yards than Daniel Jones, 3727 to 3101.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Justin Herbert is off in Week 7 and Daniel Jones in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.7 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.
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