Jayden Daniels or Aaron Jones Sr.: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 26, 2026 at 7:36 AM ET
Jayden Daniels is the start on the books' latest price, 19.8 points to Aaron Jones Sr.'s 12.1, with Jayden Daniels on the price the books posted for his Week 2 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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QB3 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Books price
- 19.8 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 46
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
RB22 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 4-8
- Books price
- 12.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 16.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Jones Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 139.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jayden Daniels, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Aaron Jones Sr. at 12.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 71st highest figure of the 170 players the books price.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 77 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 61 times and thrown 9.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 61 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 1 against PHI he completed 18 of 34 passes for 164 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 31 yards.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 17 passes for 96 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 69 yards.
Through Week 2, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 62 percent of MIN snaps, taken 59 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 4.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against GB he carried 12 times for 40 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 2 against CHI he carried 23 times for 105 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jayden Daniels played 7 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB34.
He threw for 1262 yards on 188 attempts with 8 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 278 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Aaron Jones Sr. played 12 games and scored 118.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing RB41.
He carried 132 times for 548 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 28 of 41 targets for 199 more yards.
That came to 11.0 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Aaron Jones Sr. was available for 5 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 6.9 a game between them.
Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and Aaron Jones Sr. RB41, which are two different ladders.
Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and Aaron Jones Sr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jayden Daniels is off in Week 7 and Aaron Jones Sr. in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jayden Daniels is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jayden Daniels has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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