Should I start Dylan Sampson or Daniel Jones in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 5:46 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Daniel Jones: he has been on the field this season, 100 percent of the snaps, and Dylan Sampson has no snap on record yet. 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.
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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.
RB47 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs anytime td line 2-13
- Overall rank
- 146
QB25 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 148
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The gap
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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 Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Daniel Jones, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.
The market-based projection for Daniel Jones is 13.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Dylan Sampson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.
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 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.
He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.
That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 25 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.
Dylan Sampson was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Daniel Jones scored 18.0 PPR points a game and Dylan Sampson 5.8, 12.2 a game between them.
Dylan Sampson finished RB55 and Daniel Jones QB17, which are two different ladders.
Dylan Sampson 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
Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11 and Daniel Jones in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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