Should I start Jayden Daniels or Jakobi Meyers in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Jayden Daniels's market-based projection is 19.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 219 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 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 90 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 176 times and thrown 8.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 25 of 176 dropbacks and scrambled 21 times.

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.

In Week 6 against SF he completed 29 of 38 passes for 300 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 11 yards.

In Week 8 against PHI he completed 16 of 29 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 23 yards.

Through Week 8, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 76 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 2 of 3 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 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jakobi Meyers was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Jakobi Meyers 11.0, 5.8 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and Jakobi Meyers WR32, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Jakobi Meyers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

10.4 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.