Should I start Jayden Daniels or Austin Ekeler in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Jayden Daniels's market-based projection is 18.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Daniels, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 92 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 217 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 217 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.

In Week 6 against SF he completed 29 of 38 passes for 300 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 11 yards.

In Week 8 against PHI he completed 16 of 29 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 23 yards.

In Week 9 against LAR he completed 24 of 34 passes for 273 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 16 yards.

Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 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 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.

He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jayden Daniels was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 10.2 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and Austin Ekeler RB103, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and Austin Ekeler a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

11.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.