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Jalon Daniels or Caleb Williams: who should I start in Week 6?

Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM ET

Week 6 verdict

Start Caleb Williams over Jalon Daniels

Start

Caleb Williams

QB · Questionable

Market projects
17.7
fantasy pts
Snap share
93%
Through Week 2
Market projects
13.0
fantasy pts
Snap share
68%
Through Week 5
Start Williams or Daniels? The full Week 6 breakdown

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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QB7 · TB · bye unlisted

Overall rank
69
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
3

QB10 · CHI · bye 10

2025 vs pass yds line 10-7

Overall rank
83
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
3

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The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size198 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 market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Caleb Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jalon Daniels is 18.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Caleb Williams is 17.5 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 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 5, Jalon Daniels has been on the field for 68 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 71 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 71 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against MIN he completed 0 of 3 passes for 0 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 9 yards.

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.

Through Week 2, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 93 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 70 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 1 against CAR he completed 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 10 times for 65 yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.

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Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.

He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Caleb Williams holds the bigger snap share, 93 percent against 68 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Caleb Williams is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.

Caleb Williams is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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