Daniel Jones or Cooper Kupp: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Daniel Jones's market-based projection is 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 25th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Cooper Kupp's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Daniel Jones: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 100 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 189 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 189 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against HOU he completed 24 of 36 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 5 yards.

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.

Through Week 5, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 64 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 9.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 4 of 5 targets for 46 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Cooper Kupp played 16 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR53.

He caught 47 of 70 targets for 593 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cooper Kupp was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Daniel Jones scored 18.0 PPR points a game and Cooper Kupp 7.3, 10.7 a game between them.

Daniel Jones finished QB17 and Cooper Kupp WR53, which are two different ladders.

Daniel Jones is a quarterback and Cooper Kupp a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Daniel Jones is off in Week 13 and Cooper Kupp in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

10.6 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.