Kirk Cousins Week 5 Outlook - Raiders at Patriots

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Thu, Oct 8th 2026, 1:35pm EDT

Kirk Cousins is the QB8 in fantasy points per game with at least 20 fantasy points in each of his last three starts. Cousins has rolled back the hands of time with his performance this season. Among 29 qualifying quarterbacks, he ranks 12th in passing success rate, 15th in yards per attempt and highly accurate throw rate, and 16th in catchable target rate. Cousins should still have a solid game this week, but it's a tough matchup, so I'd consider him a solid QB2, and anything more than that we get this week is icing on the cake. New England has allowed the eighth-fewest yards per attempt, the 13th-lowest passing success rate, the sixth-fewest EPA per dropback, and the seventh-fewest fantasy points per dropback.