Should I start Jalon Daniels or Jayden Daniels in Week 7?

Updated Oct 22, 11:06 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Jalon Daniels: 100 percent of the snaps and 1 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jayden Daniels's 84 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Jalon Daniels for Jayden Daniels?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jayden Daniels projects 185 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 10 games), Jalon Daniels 124 (13.8 a game over 9 games).

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Jalon Daniels

QB31 · TB · bye 10

Market-based projection: 14.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 223

Jayden Daniels

QB33 · WAS · on bye this week

2026 vs pass yds line 2-2

Market-based projection: 19.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 227

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalon Daniels, and the board ranks him 223rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Daniels, and the board ranks him 227th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jalon Daniels is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for Jayden Daniels, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jalon Daniels has been on the field for 76 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 123 times and thrown 6.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 17 of 123 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

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.

In Week 6 against PIT he completed 22 of 43 passes for 164 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 4 times for 39 yards.

Through Week 6, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 88 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 143 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 20 of 143 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

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.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

Jalon Daniels is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Head to head

This season Jayden Daniels holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 76 percent.

This season Jalon Daniels holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jalon Daniels for Jayden Daniels?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jayden Daniels projects 185 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 10 games), Jalon Daniels 124 (13.8 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Jayden Daniels for Jalon Daniels?
No. Keep Jayden Daniels: he projects 185 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 10 games), Jalon Daniels 124 (13.8 a game over 9 games).