Jalon Daniels or Rico Dowdle: 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 10, 2026 at 9:46 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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QB20 · TB · bye unlisted
- Market price
- 15.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 126
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
RB38 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rush yds line 6-11
- Overall rank
- 128
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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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 Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th 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 Rico Dowdle at 8.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
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 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.
He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.
That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Jalon Daniels is a quarterback and Rico Dowdle a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.
Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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