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Emeka Egbuka 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 9, 2026 at 10:56 AM ET

Kirk Cousins is the start on the latest market price, 14.4 points to Emeka Egbuka's 8.9, with Emeka Egbuka on the market figure from his Week 5 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.

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WR36 · TB · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market price
8.9 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank
90
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
15

QB28 · LV · bye unlisted

2026 vs pass yds line 3-1

Market price
14.4 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

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The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size259 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.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Emeka Egbuka: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for Emeka Egbuka, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The player markets price Kirk Cousins at 14.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 50th highest figure of the 202 players the market prices.

This season through Week 4

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.

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 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.

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.

Emeka Egbuka was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Emeka Egbuka scored 11.5 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 0.7 a game between them.

Emeka Egbuka finished WR23 and Kirk Cousins QB35, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Emeka Egbuka is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.

What would change the answer

Emeka Egbuka has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

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