Should I start Baker Mayfield or Jalon Daniels in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Baker Mayfield, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalon Daniels, and the board ranks him 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Baker Mayfield's market-based projection is 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jalon Daniels is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jalon Daniels's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 3, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 98 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 118 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 118 dropbacks and scrambled 9 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.

In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.

Through Week 6, Jalon Daniels has been on the field for 76 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 123 times and thrown 6.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 17 of 123 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

In Week 4 against GB he completed 19 of 27 passes for 148 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 8 times for 55 yards.

In Week 5 against DAL he completed 19 of 25 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 25 yards.

In Week 6 against PIT he completed 22 of 43 passes for 164 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 4 times for 39 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.

Jalon Daniels is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Baker Mayfield holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 76 percent.

This season Jalon Daniels holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Baker Mayfield is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jalon Daniels has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.