Jalon Daniels or Tyler Higbee: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jalon Daniels at 13.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

The player markets price Tyler Higbee at 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 131st highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalon Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Higbee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 49 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 7.9 air yards.

In Week 2 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 62 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 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 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Jalon Daniels is a quarterback and Tyler Higbee a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

6.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.