Justin Herbert or Lamar Jackson: 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 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Lamar Jackson, 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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QB30 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 12.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB31 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 19.0 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 219
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size255 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Lamar Jackson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 219th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 3.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Justin Herbert at 12.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 218 players the market prices.
The market has Lamar Jackson at 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Lamar Jackson's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 144 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 144 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.
In Week 2 against LV he completed 15 of 27 passes for 192 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 2 yards.
In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.
In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.
Through Week 4, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 88 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 2 against NO he completed 21 of 30 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 34 yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he completed 15 of 20 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 50 yards.
In Week 4 against TEN he completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 20 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.
He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.
He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 92 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Justin Herbert was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Lamar Jackson 17.1, 1.7 a game between them.
Justin Herbert finished QB10 that year and Lamar Jackson QB20.
Justin Herbert had 210 more pass attempts than Lamar Jackson, 512 to 302.
Justin Herbert had 1178 more passing yards than Lamar Jackson, 3727 to 2549.
This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 88 percent.
This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Justin Herbert is off in Week 7 and Lamar Jackson in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Lamar Jackson is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Lamar Jackson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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