Joe Burrow or MarShawn Lloyd: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Joe Burrow at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 25th highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

The player markets price MarShawn Lloyd at 9.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on MarShawn Lloyd: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 52.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 171 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 171 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

Through Week 4, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 37 percent of GB snaps, taken 43 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against ATL he carried 4 times for 11 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 7 times for 13 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Side by side

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and MarShawn Lloyd a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and MarShawn Lloyd in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.0 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.