Justin Herbert or Troy Franklin: who should I start in Week 5?

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 219 players the market prices.

The player markets price Troy Franklin at 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 168th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 30 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 18.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

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 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 8.3 a game between them.

Justin Herbert finished QB10 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

Justin Herbert is a quarterback and Troy Franklin a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Justin Herbert is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Troy Franklin.

What would change the answer

7.6 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.