Jordan Love 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 7:01 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Kirk Cousins, 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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QB18 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Market price
- 15.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB20 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 105
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size218 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 22.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Jordan Love at 15.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.
The market has Kirk Cousins at 15.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kirk Cousins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
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 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 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 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.
Jordan Love was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 5.2 a game between them.
Jordan Love finished QB15 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Jordan Love had 170 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 439 to 269.
Jordan Love had 1660 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 3381 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
Jordan Love is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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