Tyson Bagent 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 7:31 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Kirk Cousins, 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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QB20 · CHI · bye unlisted
- Market price
- 15.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB21 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 106
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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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 Tyson Bagent: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kirk Cousins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Tyson Bagent at 15.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
The market has Kirk Cousins at 15.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kirk Cousins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Tyson Bagent has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 45 times and thrown 6.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 45 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 2 against MIN he completed 5 of 8 passes for 54 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 4 against NYJ he completed 25 of 34 passes for 268 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 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 Tyson Bagent played 3 games and scored 2.6 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing QB67.
He threw for 47 yards on 4 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 1.3 attempts a game at 11.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 1 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.
Kirk Cousins was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Tyson Bagent 0.9, 10.0 a game between them.
Tyson Bagent finished QB67 that year and Kirk Cousins QB35.
Kirk Cousins had 265 more pass attempts than Tyson Bagent, 269 to 4.
Kirk Cousins had 1674 more passing yards than Tyson Bagent, 1721 to 47.
This season Kirk Cousins holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 62 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
What would change the answer
Kirk Cousins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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