Should I start Fernando Mendoza or Daniel Jones in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 3:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Week 10 verdict
Start Daniel Jones over Fernando Mendoza
- Market projects
- 12.5
- recent weeks avg
- MIA D vs QB
- 20.6
- 4th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 98%
- Through Week 9
- Market projects
- 11.7
- fantasy pts
- SEA D vs QB
- 11.9
- 2nd fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 17%
- Through Week 5
Start Daniel Jones: 93 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Fernando Mendoza's 17 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB10 · LV · bye 13
- Market-based projection
- 10.5 pts a game
QB24 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-6
- Market-based projection
- 14.6 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 205
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The gap
- Board size307 draftable players
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 Fernando Mendoza, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Daniel Jones, and the board ranks him 205th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.
The market-based projections
Fernando Mendoza's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Daniel Jones is 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Daniel Jones's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Fernando Mendoza has been on the field for 17 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 9 times and thrown 5.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 9 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 5 against NE he completed 6 of 8 passes for 48 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.
Through Week 9, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 98 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 337 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 60 of 337 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 7 against MIN he completed 13 of 22 passes for 108 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 13 yards.
In Week 8 against JAX he completed 19 of 28 passes for 144 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 8 yards.
In Week 9 against DAL he completed 20 of 34 passes for 180 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 11 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Daniel Jones holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 17 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
What would change the answer
Daniel Jones has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
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