Josh Allen or Jayden Daniels: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM ET
Jayden Daniels is not in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Jayden Daniels, 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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QB1 · BUF · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 8-9
- Books price
- 23.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- ADP 2
QB3 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Books price
- 19.8 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 50
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room has them
Josh Allen goes at ADP 2, an average pick of 24.1, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.
His earliest recorded pick is 2 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 8.5 picks.
He appears in 529 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.
Over 14 days drafters have taken Allen 8.6 picks earlier.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 16.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Josh Allen at 23.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jayden Daniels, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 70 times and thrown 10.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 70 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 1 against HOU he completed 20 of 29 passes for 334 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 24 yards.
In Week 2 against DET he completed 20 of 31 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 11 times for 72 yards.
Through Week 2, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 77 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 61 times and thrown 9.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 61 dropbacks and scrambled 9 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 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.
Josh Allen was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Jayden Daniels 16.8, 5.3 a game between them.
Josh Allen finished QB1 that year and Jayden Daniels QB34.
Josh Allen had 272 more pass attempts than Jayden Daniels, 460 to 188.
Josh Allen had 2406 more passing yards than Jayden Daniels, 3668 to 1262.
This season Josh Allen holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 77 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Jayden Daniels is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jayden Daniels has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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