Mike Gesicki or Jalon Daniels: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Jalon Daniels, 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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TE18 · CIN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 3-1
- Market price
- 8.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB20 · TB · bye unlisted
- Market price
- 15.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 126
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size279 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 Mike Gesicki: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Mike Gesicki at 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 218 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Jalon Daniels, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 46 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.
In Week 2 against HOU he was not given the ball.
In Week 3 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.
He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalon Daniels is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Mike Gesicki is a tight end and Jalon Daniels a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
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.
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