Jared Goff or Kirk Cousins: 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 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM ET
The market prices Jared Goff 6.7 points a game ahead of Kirk Cousins 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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QB3 · DET · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 21.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB27 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 14.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference6.7 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 Jared Goff at 21.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.
The player markets price Kirk Cousins at 14.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 48th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jared Goff: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Jared Goff has been on the field for 100 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 174 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 174 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 2 against BUF he completed 26 of 38 passes for 327 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 7 yards.
In Week 3 against NYJ he completed 25 of 32 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.
In Week 4 against CAR he completed 32 of 52 passes for 412 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Through Week 4, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 100 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 149 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 149 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against LAC he completed 19 of 29 passes for 253 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
In Week 3 against NO he completed 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.
He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.
He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jared Goff was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 7.1 a game between them.
Jared Goff finished QB9 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Jared Goff had 309 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 578 to 269.
Jared Goff had 2843 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 4564 to 1721.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Jared Goff is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.
What would change the answer
6.7 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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