Jayden Daniels or Kayshon Boutte: who should I start in Week 6?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jayden Daniels at 18.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 5th highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.

The player markets price Kayshon Boutte at 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kayshon Boutte: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 77 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.

Through Week 5, Kayshon Boutte has been on the field for 62 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 12.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

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 Kayshon Boutte played 14 games and scored 124.1 PPR points, 8.9 a game, finishing WR51.

He caught 33 of 46 targets for 551 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 16.7 yards a catch.

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

Kayshon Boutte was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Kayshon Boutte 8.9, 7.9 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and Kayshon Boutte WR51, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and Kayshon Boutte a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kayshon Boutte is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Jayden Daniels.

What would change the answer

11.7 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.