Jayden Daniels or George Kittle: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jayden Daniels at 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.

The player markets price George Kittle at 15.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 5 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on George Kittle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 77 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 5, George Kittle has been on the field for 68 percent of SF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 82 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 70 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 5 of 6 targets for 24 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 George Kittle played 11 games and scored 161.5 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE13.

He caught 57 of 69 targets for 628 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

George Kittle was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and George Kittle 14.7, 2.1 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and George Kittle TE13, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and George Kittle a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

0.7 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.