Tyler Shough or Kirk Cousins: 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 11:46 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Tyler Shough, 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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QB9 · NO · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-0
- Overall rank
- 71
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
QB27 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 14.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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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 Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 25.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Tyler Shough at 17.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Kirk Cousins at 14.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 48th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.
Tyler Shough's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 197 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 197 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 2 against BAL he completed 27 of 34 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 24 yards.
In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.
He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Tyler Shough was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Kirk Cousins 10.9, 4.1 a game between them.
Tyler Shough finished QB26 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Tyler Shough had 58 more pass attempts than Kirk Cousins, 327 to 269.
Tyler Shough had 663 more passing yards than Kirk Cousins, 2384 to 1721.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Tyler Shough is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Kirk Cousins.
Tyler Shough is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Tyler Shough is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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