Start Kirk Cousins or Daniel Jones? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Kirk Cousins over Daniel Jones
- Market projects
- 15.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 15.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Kirk Cousins over Daniel Jones in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Kirk Cousins at 15.8 points and Daniel Jones at 15.3, a gap of 0.5. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Kirk Cousins's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 15.3 fantasy points for Daniel Jones, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Daniel Jones at 215.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 10.5 rushing yards, with a 16% chance to score a touchdown (16, 17, 14 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 15.8 fantasy points for Kirk Cousins, with 80 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Kirk Cousins at 228.5 passing yards and 1.5 passing touchdowns, with a 6% chance to score a touchdown (15, 16 and 15 market sources).
That puts Kirk Cousins 0.5 points ahead of Daniel Jones on the market projections.
Injury status
Daniel Jones is not on the injury report.
Kirk Cousins is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Daniel Jones played 100 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 144 times and threw an average of 5.8 air yards per attempt.
Daniel Jones, Week 1 against BAL: 54 of 54 snaps, 19 of 31 passes for 166 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 1 carry for 4 yards.
Daniel Jones, Week 2 against KC: 65 of 65 snaps, 22 of 31 passes for 210 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 3 carries for 10 yards.
Daniel Jones, Week 3 against HOU: 71 of 71 snaps, 24 of 36 passes for 235 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 3 carries for 5 yards.
Daniel Jones, Week 4 against WAS: 66 of 66 snaps, 19 of 34 passes for 143 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 2 carries for 5 yards.
Through Week 4, Kirk Cousins played 100 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 149 times and threw an average of 8.8 air yards per attempt.
Kirk Cousins, Week 1 against MIA: 68 of 68 snaps, 21 of 30 passes for 160 yards, 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 2 carries for 0 yards.
Kirk Cousins, Week 2 against LAC: 63 of 63 snaps, 19 of 29 passes for 253 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 4 yards.
Kirk Cousins, Week 3 against NO: 70 of 70 snaps, 22 of 33 passes for 248 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 5 yards.
Kirk Cousins, Week 4 against KC: 84 of 84 snaps, 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Daniel Jones played 13 games for IND and scored 234.4 PPR points, 18.0 a game, finishing QB17.
He completed 261 of 384 passes for 3101 yards, 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran 45 times for 164 yards and 5 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
In 2025, Kirk Cousins played 10 games for ATL and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.
He completed 166 of 269 passes for 1721 yards, 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran 14 times for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB21 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 103
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
Ranked behind
QB25 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 114
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board11
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 7
- Board size219 draftable players
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