Should I start Jayden Daniels or Kendrick Bourne in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Kendrick Bourne: Out to IR (Lower Leg, Fracture) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Kendrick Bourne: Questionable to Out (Ankle, Sprain) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Kendrick Bourne: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Jayden Daniels: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kendrick Bourne's 47 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB5 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 19.3 pts a game
WR34 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs anytime td line 0-8
- Market-based projection
- 8.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 69
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Daniels, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendrick Bourne, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Jayden Daniels's market-based projection is 19.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Kendrick Bourne, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 90 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 176 times and thrown 8.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 25 of 176 dropbacks and scrambled 21 times.
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.
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.
Through Week 8, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 54 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 1 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 57 two minute targets.
His 38 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.
In Week 6 against LAR he caught 5 of 8 targets for 47 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against DEN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against DAL he caught 1 of 2 targets for 29 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 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.
He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kendrick Bourne was available for 9 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Kendrick Bourne 5.8, 11.0 a game between them.
Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and Kendrick Bourne WR68, which are two different ladders.
Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and Kendrick Bourne a wide receiver, 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 Kendrick Bourne in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Kendrick Bourne is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Kendrick Bourne has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Jayden Daniels playing Week 9?
- Is Kendrick Bourne playing Week 9?
- Commanders depth chart
- Cardinals depth chart
- Week 9 QB rankings
- Week 9 WR rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
