Should I start Chase Brown or Daniel Jones in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:16 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Daniel Jones: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Chase Brown's 70 percent of the snaps and 56 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Daniel Jones for Chase Brown?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Chase Brown projects 177 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 11 games), Daniel Jones 152 (15.2 a game over 10 games).

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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.

Chase Brown

RB23 · CIN · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Overall rank: 70

Daniel Jones

QB11 · IND · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 3-3

Market-based projection: 15.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 71

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The gap

Board size297 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 19.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Daniel Jones, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Chase Brown is 4.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for Daniel Jones, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Chase Brown has been on the field for 70 percent of CIN snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 4 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 13 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 9 times for 10 yards, caught 11 of 11 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 13 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 100 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 239 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 239 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 4 against WAS he completed 19 of 34 passes for 143 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 5 against PIT he completed 24 of 44 passes for 267 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.

In Week 6 against TEN he completed 22 of 41 passes for 269 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 30 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chase Brown played 17 games and scored 282.6 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing RB7.

He carried 232 times for 1019 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 69 of 88 targets for 437 more yards.

That came to 13.6 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 4.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 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 29-30 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.

Chase Brown was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Daniel Jones scored 18.0 PPR points a game and Chase Brown 16.6, 1.4 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 and Daniel Jones QB17, which are two different ladders.

Chase Brown is a running back and Daniel Jones a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and Daniel Jones in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Daniel Jones for Chase Brown?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Chase Brown projects 177 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 11 games), Daniel Jones 152 (15.2 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Chase Brown for Daniel Jones?
No. Keep Chase Brown: he projects 177 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 11 games), Daniel Jones 152 (15.2 a game over 10 games).