Kenyon Sadiq or Jalen Hurts: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenyon Sadiq: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

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

No season market is posted for Jalen Hurts, 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 through Week 5

Through Week 5, Kenyon Sadiq has been on the field for 48 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DET he caught 7 of 8 targets for 105 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CHI he caught 0 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.

In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

Kenyon Sadiq is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.

He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.

That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Kenyon Sadiq is a tight end and Jalen Hurts a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Kenyon Sadiq.

Kenyon Sadiq is listed as out on the injury report.