Josh Allen or Tyler Shough: 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
Tyler Shough is not in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Tyler Shough, 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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QB1 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 6-0
- Market price
- 22.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- ADP 1
QB9 · NO · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-0
- Overall rank
- 81
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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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 has them
Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.
His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.
He appears in 17 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 25.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Josh Allen at 22.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.
The market has Tyler Shough at 17.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tyler Shough's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 136 times and thrown 9.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 136 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 2 against DET he completed 20 of 31 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 11 times for 72 yards.
In Week 3 against LAC he completed 16 of 26 passes for 204 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 7 times for 23 yards.
In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.
Through Week 4, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 197 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 197 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 2 against BAL he completed 27 of 34 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 24 yards.
In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.
He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Allen was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Tyler Shough 14.9, 7.1 a game between them.
Josh Allen finished QB1 that year and Tyler Shough QB26.
Josh Allen had 133 more pass attempts than Tyler Shough, 460 to 327.
Josh Allen had 1284 more passing yards than Tyler Shough, 3668 to 2384.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
This season Josh Allen holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Josh Allen is off in Week 7 and Tyler Shough in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tyler Shough is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Tyler Shough is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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