Should I start Jayden Daniels or DeVonta Smith in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jayden Daniels's market-based projection is 19.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

DeVonta Smith's market-based projection is 12.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 61st highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Daniels, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeVonta Smith, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 11; 2QB: ADP 28.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 84 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 98 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 98 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

In Week 1 against PHI he completed 18 of 34 passes for 164 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 31 yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 17 passes for 96 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 69 yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he completed 17 of 25 passes for 199 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 104 yards.

Through Week 3, DeVonta Smith has been on the field for 93 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 33 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against WAS he caught 3 of 6 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against TEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 117 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against CHI he caught 6 of 8 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jayden Daniels played 7 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB34.

He threw for 1262 yards on 188 attempts with 8 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 278 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DeVonta Smith played 17 games and scored 201.8 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR20.

He caught 77 of 113 targets for 1008 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 13.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DeVonta Smith was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and DeVonta Smith 11.9, 4.9 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and DeVonta Smith WR20, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and DeVonta Smith a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jayden Daniels is off in Week 7 and DeVonta Smith in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

6.8 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.