Jalon Daniels or Tyler Shough: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Tyler Shough over Jalon Daniels
- Market projects
- 17.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 13.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 68%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for 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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QB7 · TB · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 69
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
QB9 · NO · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 79
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 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 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jalon Daniels is 18.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Tyler Shough is 17.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 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 5
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 5, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 223 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 223 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
In Week 5 against MIN he completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
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Their 2025 seasons
Jalon Daniels is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.
He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Tyler Shough holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 68 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Tyler Shough is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Jalon Daniels.
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