Should I start Tanner McKee or Jalon Daniels in Week 7?
Updated Oct 22, 11:06 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Jalon Daniels over Tanner McKee
- Market projects
- 14.9
- recent weeks avg
- CAR D vs QB
- 18.6
- 13th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 76%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 14.3
- fantasy pts
- DAL D vs QB
- 21.4
- 5th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 6
Start Jalon Daniels over Tanner McKee in Week 7.
Should I drop Tanner McKee for Jalon Daniels?
Not on these numbers alone. Tanner McKee projects 124 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (13.8 a game over 9 games) and Jalon Daniels 124 (13.8 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 7 the call starts Jalon Daniels over Tanner McKee.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB23 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 14.3 pts a game
QB31 · TB · bye 10
- Market-based projection
- 14.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 223
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The gap
- Board size321 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalon Daniels, and the board ranks him 223rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Tanner McKee's market-based projection is 14.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 55th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Jalon Daniels is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Jalon Daniels's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 48 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 48 dropbacks.
In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
Through Week 6, Jalon Daniels has been on the field for 76 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 123 times and thrown 6.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 17 of 123 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.
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.
In Week 6 against PIT he completed 22 of 43 passes for 164 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 4 times for 39 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.
He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 3 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 Tanner McKee holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 76 percent.
This season Jalon Daniels holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Jalon Daniels is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.
What would change the answer
Jalon Daniels has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Tanner McKee for Jalon Daniels?
Not on these numbers alone. Tanner McKee projects 124 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (13.8 a game over 9 games) and Jalon Daniels 124 (13.8 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 7 the call starts Jalon Daniels over Tanner McKee.
Should I drop Jalon Daniels for Tanner McKee?
Not on these numbers alone. Jalon Daniels projects 124 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (13.8 a game over 9 games) and Tanner McKee 124 (13.8 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 7 the call starts Jalon Daniels over Tanner McKee.
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