Jalon Daniels or Marcus Mariota: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Jalon Daniels over Marcus Mariota
- Market projects
- 15.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 68%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.6
- recent weeks avg
- SF D vs QB
- 13.7
- 5th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 54%
- Through Week 4
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Marcus Mariota, 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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QB20 · TB · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-10
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size202 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Marcus Mariota at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Jalon Daniels's market-based projection is 15.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 158 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Marcus Mariota, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jalon Daniels has been on the field for 68 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 71 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 71 dropbacks and scrambled 12 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.
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.
Through Week 4, Marcus Mariota has been on the field for 54 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 57 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 57 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.
In Week 3 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 183 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 13 yards.
In Week 4 against IND he completed 3 of 4 passes for 46 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
Jalon Daniels is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Marcus Mariota played 11 games and scored 132.5 PPR points, 12.0 a game, finishing QB32.
He threw for 1695 yards on 227 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 297 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 20.6 attempts a game at 8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Jalon Daniels holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 54 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
What would change the answer
Marcus Mariota has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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