Jalon Daniels or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

The market-based projections

Jalon Daniels's market-based projection is 15.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 4.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Saquon Barkley's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 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 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17-18 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Jalon Daniels is a quarterback and Saquon Barkley a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Saquon Barkley is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.