Geno Smith or Jalon Daniels: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Geno Smith over Jalon Daniels
- Market projects
- 16.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 15.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 68%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Geno Smith, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB18 · NYJ · bye 13
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- Overall rank
- 101
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
QB19 · TB · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size205 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Geno Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Geno Smith is 16.2 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Jalon Daniels's market-based projection is 15.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.
Geno Smith's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 171 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 171 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 3 against DET he completed 31 of 37 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
In Week 4 against CHI he completed 8 of 15 passes for 119 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
In Week 5 against CLE he completed 17 of 30 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 9 yards.
Through Week 5, Jalon Daniels has been on the field for 68 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 71 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 71 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against MIN he completed 0 of 3 passes for 0 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 9 yards.
In Week 4 against GB he completed 19 of 27 passes for 148 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 8 times for 55 yards.
In Week 5 against DAL he completed 19 of 25 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 25 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.
He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalon Daniels is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Geno Smith holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 68 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Geno Smith is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.
What would change the answer
Geno Smith is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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