Jalon Daniels or Keenan Allen: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Keenan Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 123rd 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 player markets price Keenan Allen at 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 213 players the market prices.

This season so far

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 3, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 64 percent of IND snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

In Week 1 against BAL he caught 6 of 6 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against KC he caught 1 of 5 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against HOU he caught 6 of 9 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.

He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Jalon Daniels is a quarterback and Keenan Allen a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Keenan Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.

Keenan Allen is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jalon Daniels has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.