Daniel Jones 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 11:26 PM ET
The market prices Daniel Jones 0.9 points a game ahead of Kirk Cousins 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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QB24 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 15.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB27 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 14.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.9 points a game
- Board size222 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 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 185 players the market prices.
The player markets price Kirk Cousins at 14.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 48th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
Where the draft room stands
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.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season through Week 4
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.
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 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.
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.
Daniel Jones was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Daniel Jones scored 18.0 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 7.2 a game between them.
Daniel Jones finished QB17 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Daniel Jones had 115 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 384 to 269.
Daniel Jones had 1380 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 3101 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
Daniel Jones is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.
What would change the answer
0.9 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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