Dak Prescott or Jalon Daniels: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Dak Prescott over Jalon Daniels
- Market projects
- 18.7
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 68%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Jalon Daniels, 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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QB6 · DAL · bye 14
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- Market-based projection
- 18.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB7 · TB · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 69
- 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 Dak Prescott: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.
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.
The market-based projections
Dak Prescott's market-based projection is 18.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
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.
Jalon Daniels's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 209 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 209 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 3 against BAL he completed 25 of 40 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.
In Week 4 against HOU he completed 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.
In Week 5 against TB he completed 24 of 42 passes for 316 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.
He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 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 Dak Prescott holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 68 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Dak Prescott is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.
What would change the answer
Jalon Daniels is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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