Jalen Brooks or Justin Herbert: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.

The market-based projections

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 3.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 129th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Justin Herbert is 12.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Justin Herbert's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 15 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.

In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.

In Week 5 against DEN he completed 14 of 23 passes for 121 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 54 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.

He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.

He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

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

Justin Herbert was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 17.7 a game between them.

Jalen Brooks is a wide receiver and Justin Herbert a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Justin Herbert is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Jalen Brooks.

What would change the answer

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