Should I start Jayden Daniels or Javonte Williams in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Daniels, and the board ranks him 10th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jayden Daniels's market-based projection is 18.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 8th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 19.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 92 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 217 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 217 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.

In Week 6 against SF he completed 29 of 38 passes for 300 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 11 yards.

In Week 8 against PHI he completed 16 of 29 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 23 yards.

In Week 9 against LAR he completed 24 of 34 passes for 273 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 16 yards.

Through Week 9, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 74 percent of DAL snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 39 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 82 third down targets, had 22 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 55 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against PHI he carried 25 times for 155 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against ARI he carried 24 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against IND he carried 20 times for 101 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jayden Daniels played 7 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB34.

He threw for 1262 yards on 188 attempts with 8 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 278 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Javonte Williams played 16 games and scored 242.8 PPR points, 15.2 a game, finishing RB12.

He carried 252 times for 1201 yards and 11 touchdowns, and caught 35 of 51 targets for 137 more yards.

That came to 15.8 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Javonte Williams was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Javonte Williams 15.2, 1.6 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and Javonte Williams RB12, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and Javonte Williams a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jayden Daniels is off in Week 7 and Javonte Williams in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Javonte Williams has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.