Kirk Cousins or Jonathon Brooks: who should I start in Week 3?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 26, 2026 at 7:31 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB28 · LV · bye 13
2025 vs pass td line 2-8
- Overall rank
- 148
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
RB43 · CAR · bye 5
- Books price
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 149
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 163.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jonathon Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 106.
What the sportsbooks price
The books have Kirk Cousins at 13.5 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 17 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jonathon Brooks, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 100 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 63 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 63 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against MIA he completed 21 of 30 passes for 160 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 0 yards.
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.
Through Week 2, Jonathon Brooks has been on the field for 25 percent of CAR snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against CHI he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
The season feed carries no line for Jonathon Brooks in the last completed season.
Side by side
Kirk Cousins is a quarterback and Jonathon Brooks a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13 and Jonathon Brooks in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jonathon Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
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