Jaylen Wright or Geno Smith: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Wright: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Geno Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Jaylen Wright at 6.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Geno Smith at 14.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

Jaylen Wright's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 12 percent of MIA snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

In Week 1 against LV he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 2 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 136 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 136 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 2 against GB he completed 27 of 40 passes for 247 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 17 yards.

In Week 3 against DET he completed 31 of 37 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 4 against CHI he completed 8 of 15 passes for 119 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.

He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Geno Smith was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Geno Smith scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 7.9 a game between them.

Jaylen Wright finished RB70 and Geno Smith QB23, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Wright is a running back and Geno Smith a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Geno Smith is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

What would change the answer

Jaylen Wright is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.