Jalen Hurts or Michael Penix Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 8, 2026 at 12:51 AM ET
The market prices Jalen Hurts 0.9 points a game ahead of Michael Penix Jr. this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market price is the live read on these two.
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QB22 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 15.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB25 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 4-5
- Market price
- 14.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.9 points a game
- Board size222 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.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Jalen Hurts at 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 40th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.
The player markets price Michael Penix Jr. at 14.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Penix Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 98 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 137 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 137 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 2 against TEN he completed 26 of 37 passes for 264 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 5 times for 16 yards.
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.
Through Week 4, Michael Penix Jr. has been on the field for 100 percent of ATL snaps, dropped back 46 times and thrown 6.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 2 of 46 dropbacks.
In Week 3 against GB he completed 18 of 25 passes for 256 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
In Week 4 against NO he completed 15 of 20 passes for 223 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. played 9 games and scored 123.3 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB33.
He threw for 1982 yards on 276 attempts with 9 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 70 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.7 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalen Hurts was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Michael Penix Jr. 13.7, 5.4 a game between them.
Jalen Hurts finished QB8 that year and Michael Penix Jr. QB33.
Jalen Hurts had 178 more pass attempts than Michael Penix Jr., 454 to 276.
Jalen Hurts had 1242 more passing yards than Michael Penix Jr., 3224 to 1982.
This season Michael Penix Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 98 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10 and Michael Penix Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.9 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.
The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.
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