Kirk Cousins 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 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM 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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QB26 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 14.3 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 size222 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 Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
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 Kirk Cousins at 14.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 184 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, 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.
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 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.
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.
Marcus Mariota was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Marcus Mariota scored 12.0 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 1.2 a game between them.
Kirk Cousins finished QB35 that year and Marcus Mariota QB32.
Kirk Cousins had 42 more pass attempts than Marcus Mariota, 269 to 227.
Kirk Cousins had 26 more passing yards than Marcus Mariota, 1721 to 1695.
This season Kirk Cousins holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 54 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
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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