Dak Prescott or Jayden Daniels: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, 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 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Dak Prescott, 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
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Market price
- 18.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 64
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
QB7 · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Market price
- 18.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size277 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 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Dak Prescott, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Jayden Daniels at 18.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 167 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 167 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 2 against WAS he completed 26 of 31 passes for 279 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 26 yards.
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.
Through Week 2, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 77 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 61 times and thrown 9.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 61 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 1 against PHI he completed 18 of 34 passes for 164 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 31 yards.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 17 passes for 96 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 69 yards.
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.
In 2025 Jayden Daniels played 7 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB34.
He threw for 1262 yards on 188 attempts with 8 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 278 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Dak Prescott was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Jayden Daniels 16.8, 2.3 a game between them.
Dak Prescott finished QB6 that year and Jayden Daniels QB34.
Dak Prescott had 412 more pass attempts than Jayden Daniels, 600 to 188.
Dak Prescott had 3290 more passing yards than Jayden Daniels, 4552 to 1262.
This season Dak Prescott holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 77 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 Jayden Daniels.
What would change the answer
Dak Prescott has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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