Jacoby Brissett or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacoby Brissett: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jacoby Brissett at 17.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 199 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 100 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 162 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 162 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 2 against SEA he completed 17 of 28 passes for 95 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

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.

Through Week 4, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

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 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17.5 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

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

Saquon Barkley was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jacoby Brissett scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Saquon Barkley 14.5, 2.3 a game between them.

Jacoby Brissett finished QB16 and Saquon Barkley RB14, which are two different ladders.

Jacoby Brissett is a quarterback and Saquon Barkley 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 Saquon Barkley in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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