Jordan Love or Keenan Allen: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jordan Love at 15.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 37th highest figure of the 212 players the market prices.

The player markets price Keenan Allen at 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 212 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Keenan Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Jordan Love has been on the field for 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 162 times and thrown 8.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 33 of 162 dropbacks.

In Week 2 against NYJ he completed 16 of 29 passes for 145 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 3 against ATL he completed 28 of 53 passes for 312 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

In Week 4 against TB he completed 22 of 30 passes for 197 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.

Through Week 3, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 64 percent of IND snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

In Week 1 against BAL he caught 6 of 6 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against KC he caught 1 of 5 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against HOU he caught 6 of 9 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.

He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.

He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Keenan Allen was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Keenan Allen 10.7, 5.3 a game between them.

Jordan Love finished QB15 and Keenan Allen WR29, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Love is a quarterback and Keenan Allen a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Love is off in Week 11 and Keenan Allen in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Keenan Allen is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.8 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.