Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Jayden Daniels in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Jaylen Waddle, 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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WR24 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 10.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 57
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
QB5 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Market-based projection
- 19.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 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 Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jaylen Waddle, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Jayden Daniels's market-based projection is 19.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 7 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 84 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 98 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 98 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.
In Week 1 against PHI he completed 18 of 34 passes for 164 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 31 yards.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 17 passes for 96 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 69 yards.
In Week 5 against NYG he completed 17 of 25 passes for 199 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 104 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.
He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Jaylen Waddle was available for 9 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 4.6 a game between them.
Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and Jayden Daniels QB34, which are two different ladders.
Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and Jayden Daniels a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10 and Jayden Daniels in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jaylen Waddle is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jaylen Waddle has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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