Sam Darnold 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 9, 2026 at 3:16 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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QB17 · SEA · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 9-8
- Market price
- 15.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB18 · TB · bye unlisted
- Market price
- 15.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 108
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size258 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 Sam Darnold: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 26.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Sam Darnold at 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 34th highest figure of the 200 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, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 75 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 6.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 14 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against NE he completed 1 of 2 passes for 13 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 3 against WAS he completed 31 of 45 passes for 379 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 5 yards.
In Week 4 against LAC he completed 13 of 22 passes for 168 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 8 yards.
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 Sam Darnold played 17 games and scored 249.4 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing QB13.
He threw for 4048 yards on 477 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and ran for 95 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 28.1 attempts a game at 8.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 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.
Head to head
This season Sam Darnold holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 50 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Sam Darnold is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.
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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