Should I start Dak Prescott or Jaylen Waddle in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dak Prescott, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dak Prescott is 21.8 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 5 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Dak Prescott's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 330 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 330 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 6 against GB he completed 34 of 54 passes for 258 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

In Week 7 against PHI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 212 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

In Week 8 against ARI he completed 19 of 29 passes for 195 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 21 yards.

Through Week 8, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 63 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 9.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 4 of 7 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dak Prescott was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 6.9 a game between them.

Dak Prescott finished QB6 and Jaylen Waddle WR24, which are two different ladders.

Dak Prescott is a quarterback and Jaylen Waddle a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dak Prescott is off in Week 14 and Jaylen Waddle in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Dak Prescott has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.