Should I start Daniel Jones or Jonah Coleman in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Daniel Jones: 94 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jonah Coleman's 52 percent of the snaps and 42 percent of the carries. 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.
QB27 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 14.9 pts a game
RB41 · DEN · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 135
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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 Daniel Jones, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jonah Coleman, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Daniel Jones's market-based projection is 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Jonah Coleman is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.
Jonah Coleman's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 98 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 299 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 56 of 299 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
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.
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.
Through Week 8, Jonah Coleman has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 6 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against JAX he carried 10 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 9 times for 54 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
Jonah Coleman is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Daniel Jones is a quarterback and Jonah Coleman a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Daniel Jones is off in Week 13 and Jonah Coleman in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jonah Coleman has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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