Jacoby Brissett or James Cook III: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 13, 2026 at 2:21 AM ET
Jacoby Brissett is the start on the latest market price, 21.1 points to James Cook III's 14.5, the market figures from their Week 5 games. The next week's markets are not all posted yet, and this answer reorders when they are. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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QB3 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Market price
- 21.1 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 5
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 2
RB3 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-2
- Market price
- 14.5 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 25
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 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 Jacoby Brissett: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.
Drafters have formed no consensus on James Cook III: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 2; 2QB: ADP 10.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Jacoby Brissett, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for James Cook III, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 100 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 214 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 33 of 214 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 3 against SF he completed 38 of 51 passes for 280 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 4 yards.
In Week 4 against NYG he completed 21 of 35 passes for 166 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 4 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against DET he completed 29 of 46 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 19 yards.
Through Week 4, James Cook III has been on the field for 68 percent of BUF snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 4 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against DET he carried 21 times for 135 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against LAC he carried 24 times for 154 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 12 times for 75 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jacoby Brissett played 14 games and scored 235.4 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB16.
He threw for 3366 yards on 485 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 168 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 34.6 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 James Cook III played 17 games and scored 302.2 PPR points, 17.8 a game, finishing RB6.
He carried 309 times for 1621 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 291 more yards.
That came to 18.2 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
James Cook III was available for 3 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 James Cook III scored 17.8 PPR points a game and Jacoby Brissett 16.8, 1.0 a game between them.
Jacoby Brissett finished QB16 and James Cook III RB6, which are two different ladders.
Jacoby Brissett is a quarterback and James Cook III a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jacoby Brissett is off in Week 14 and James Cook III in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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