Jalen Hurts or Davante Adams: who should I start?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Jalen Hurts at 19.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 19 books. That is the 6th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

The player markets price Davante Adams at 11.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 books. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Davante Adams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 54.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 33 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 5 of 33 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 1 against WAS he completed 14 of 25 passes for 203 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 48 yards.

Through Week 1, Davante Adams has been on the field for 54 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.

In Week 1 against SF he caught 3 of 6 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.

He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.

That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Davante Adams played 14 games and scored 222.9 PPR points, 15.9 a game, finishing WR9.

He caught 60 of 114 targets for 789 yards and 14 touchdowns, with 31 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jalen Hurts was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Davante Adams 15.9, 3.1 a game between them.

Jalen Hurts finished QB8 and Davante Adams WR9, which are two different ladders.

Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Davante Adams a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10 and Davante Adams in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.6 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.