Justin Herbert or Marcus Mariota: 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 10:06 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Marcus Mariota, 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 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Market price
- 16.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-10
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 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 Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 13.
Our board does not carry Marcus Mariota at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Justin Herbert at 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Marcus Mariota, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Marcus Mariota has been on the field for 54 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 57 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 57 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.
In Week 3 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 183 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 13 yards.
In Week 4 against IND he completed 3 of 4 passes for 46 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 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 Marcus Mariota played 11 games and scored 132.5 PPR points, 12.0 a game, finishing QB32.
He threw for 1695 yards on 227 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 297 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 20.6 attempts a game at 7.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Justin Herbert was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Marcus Mariota 12.0, 6.7 a game between them.
Justin Herbert finished QB10 that year and Marcus Mariota QB32.
Justin Herbert had 285 more pass attempts than Marcus Mariota, 512 to 227.
Justin Herbert had 2032 more passing yards than Marcus Mariota, 3727 to 1695.
This season Justin Herbert holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 54 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. No bye is listed for Marcus Mariota.
What would change the answer
Marcus Mariota has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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