Jalon Daniels or Keaton Mitchell: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on either of them, 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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QB22 · TB · bye unlisted
- Market price
- 15.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 122
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
RB35 · LAC · bye unlisted
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 123
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size272 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Keaton Mitchell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Jalon Daniels, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market has Keaton Mitchell at 8.4 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Jalon Daniels has been on the field for 50 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 40 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 7 of 40 dropbacks and scrambled 7 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.
Through Week 4, Keaton Mitchell has been on the field for 33 percent of LAC snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 1.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against LV he carried 5 times for 24 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against BUF he carried 8 times for 52 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for -5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 10 times for 39 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Jalon Daniels is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Keaton Mitchell played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB67.
He carried 59 times for 341 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 9 of 12 targets for 63 more yards.
That came to 4.5 carries a game at 5.8 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Jalon Daniels is a quarterback and Keaton Mitchell a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
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