Start Kirk Cousins or Tyson Bagent? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Tyson Bagent over Kirk Cousins
- Market projects
- 15.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 62%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 15.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Tyson Bagent over Kirk Cousins in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Tyson Bagent at 15.9 points and Kirk Cousins at 15.8, a gap of 0.1. 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 15.9 fantasy points for Tyson Bagent, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Tyson Bagent at 219.5 passing yards and 1.5 passing touchdowns, with a 14% chance to score a touchdown (16, 15 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 Tyson Bagent 0.1 points ahead of Kirk Cousins on the market projections.
Injury status
Tyson Bagent is not on the injury report.
Kirk Cousins is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Tyson Bagent played 62 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 45 times and threw an average of 6.8 air yards per attempt.
Tyson Bagent, Week 2 against MIN: 10 of 74 snaps, 5 of 8 passes for 54 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Tyson Bagent, Week 4 against NYJ: 93 of 93 snaps, 25 of 34 passes for 268 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 4 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, Tyson Bagent played 3 games for CHI and scored 2.6 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing QB67.
He completed 3 of 4 passes for 47 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran 2 times for 7 yards and 0 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 1 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
QB20 · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 104
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
Ranked behind
QB21 · CHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 105
- 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 board1
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 7
- Board size219 draftable players
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