Baker Mayfield or Daniel Jones: 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 25, 2026 at 5:11 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Baker Mayfield 0.9 points a game ahead of Daniel Jones this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the books' price is the live market on these two.
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QB21 · TB · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 8-9
- Books price
- 15.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB25 · IND · bye 13
2025 vs pass yds line 6-7
- Books price
- 15.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.9 points a game
- Board size227 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.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Baker Mayfield at 15.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 34th highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
The player markets price Daniel Jones at 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 46th highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Baker Mayfield: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Daniel Jones: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 76.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 100 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 76 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 76 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 1 against CIN he completed 23 of 28 passes for 216 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 31 yards.
In Week 2 against CLE he completed 21 of 34 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 29 yards.
Through Week 2, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 100 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 67 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 67 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 1 against BAL he completed 19 of 31 passes for 166 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
In Week 2 against KC he completed 22 of 31 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 10 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.
He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Daniel Jones played 13 games and scored 234.4 PPR points, 18.0 a game, finishing QB17.
He threw for 3101 yards on 384 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 164 yards and 5 touchdowns.
That came to 29.5 attempts a game at 8.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Baker Mayfield was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Daniel Jones scored 18.0 PPR points a game and Baker Mayfield 16.6, 1.4 a game between them.
Baker Mayfield finished QB12 that year and Daniel Jones QB17.
Baker Mayfield had 159 more pass attempts than Daniel Jones, 543 to 384.
Baker Mayfield had 592 more passing yards than Daniel Jones, 3693 to 3101.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10 and Daniel Jones in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.9 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.
The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.
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