Joe Burrow or Emeka Egbuka: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Joe Burrow at 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 25th highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

The player markets price Emeka Egbuka at 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Emeka Egbuka: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 171 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 171 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

Through Week 4, Emeka Egbuka has been on the field for 84 percent of TB snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against CLE he carried 1 time for -3 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 16 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against MIN he caught 5 of 9 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Emeka Egbuka played 17 games and scored 195.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR23.

He caught 63 of 127 targets for 938 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 7.5 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emeka Egbuka was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Emeka Egbuka 11.5, 5.9 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 and Emeka Egbuka WR23, which are two different ladders.

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and Emeka Egbuka a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Emeka Egbuka in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.7 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.