Jalon Daniels or Oronde Gadsden: 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 11, 2026 at 12:16 AM 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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QB20 · TB · bye unlisted
- Market price
- 15.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 121
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
TE18 · LAC · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market price
- 8.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size280 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 Oronde Gadsden: 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 Oronde Gadsden at 8.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 220 players the market prices.
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, Oronde Gadsden has been on the field for 45 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against LV he caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against BUF he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 36 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 Oronde Gadsden played 15 games and scored 131.4 PPR points, 8.8 a game, finishing TE15.
He caught 49 of 69 targets for 664 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Jalon Daniels is a quarterback and Oronde Gadsden a tight end, 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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