Kirk Cousins or Ty Johnson: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Kirk Cousins at 14.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 50th highest figure of the 220 players the market prices.

The market has Ty Johnson at 7.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ty Johnson's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 27 percent of BUF snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

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 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.

He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.

That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ty Johnson was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 5.0 a game between them.

Kirk Cousins finished QB35 and Ty Johnson RB47, which are two different ladders.

Kirk Cousins is a quarterback and Ty Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Ty Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.