Daniel Jones or Rashid Shaheed: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Daniel Jones's market-based projection is 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 25th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Rashid Shaheed's market-based projection is 6.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Daniel Jones: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rashid Shaheed: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 50.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 100 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 189 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 189 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against HOU he completed 24 of 36 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 5 yards.

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.

Through Week 5, Rashid Shaheed has been on the field for 54 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 2 times for 33 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 20 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

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.

In 2025 Rashid Shaheed played 18 games and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashid Shaheed was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Daniel Jones scored 18.0 PPR points a game and Rashid Shaheed 8.7, 9.3 a game between them.

Daniel Jones finished QB17 and Rashid Shaheed WR39, which are two different ladders.

Daniel Jones is a quarterback and Rashid Shaheed a wide receiver, 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 Rashid Shaheed in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

10.5 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.