Start Drake Maye or Kirk Cousins? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Drake Maye over Kirk Cousins
- Market projects
- 18.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 95%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 15.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Drake Maye over Kirk Cousins in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Drake Maye at 18.4 points and Kirk Cousins at 15.8, a gap of 2.6. 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 18.4 fantasy points for Drake Maye, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Drake Maye at 227.5 passing yards and 1.5 passing touchdowns, with a 20% chance to score a touchdown (15, 17 and 15 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 Drake Maye 2.6 points ahead of Kirk Cousins on the market projections.
Injury status
Drake Maye is not on the injury report.
Kirk Cousins is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Drake Maye played 95 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 141 times and threw an average of 9.1 air yards per attempt.
Drake Maye, Week 1 against SEA: 71 of 71 snaps, 23 of 33 passes for 178 yards, 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions, 7 carries for 47 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 2 against PIT: 55 of 55 snaps, 14 of 22 passes for 208 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 2 carries for 20 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 3 against JAX: 51 of 63 snaps, 14 of 25 passes for 199 yards, 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 4 carries for 18 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 4 against BUF: 76 of 76 snaps, 22 of 37 passes for 269 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 6 carries for 56 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, Drake Maye played 17 games for NE and scored 360.0 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB2.
He completed 354 of 492 passes for 4394 yards, 31 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran 103 times for 450 yards and 4 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 97 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
QB5 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 62
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
Ranked behind
QB20 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 104
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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 board42
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 5 and tier 8
- Board size219 draftable players
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