Should I start Malik Willis or Jayden Daniels in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 1:18 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Malik Willis: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jayden Daniels's 84 percent of the snaps and 0 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.

Should I drop Malik Willis for Jayden Daniels?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jayden Daniels projects 180 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.0 a game over 10 games), Malik Willis 142 (14.2 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Malik Willis

QB18 · MIA · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Market-based projection: 15.0 pts a game

Jayden Daniels

QB20 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs pass yds line 2-2

Overall rank: 191

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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 Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Daniels, and the board ranks him 191st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Malik Willis's market-based projection is 15.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jayden Daniels is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 188 times and thrown 9.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 188 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.

In Week 4 against MIN he completed 9 of 17 passes for 85 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against CIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 137 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 8 times for 74 yards.

In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.

Through Week 6, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 88 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 143 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 20 of 143 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

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.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.

He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 10 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.

Jayden Daniels was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Malik Willis 12.8, 4.0 a game between them.

Malik Willis finished QB45 that year and Jayden Daniels QB34.

Jayden Daniels had 153 more pass attempts than Malik Willis, 188 to 35.

Jayden Daniels had 840 more passing yards than Malik Willis, 1262 to 422.

This season Malik Willis holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 88 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Malik Willis is off in Week 6 and Jayden Daniels in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Malik Willis for Jayden Daniels?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jayden Daniels projects 180 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.0 a game over 10 games), Malik Willis 142 (14.2 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Jayden Daniels for Malik Willis?
No. Keep Jayden Daniels: he projects 180 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.0 a game over 10 games), Malik Willis 142 (14.2 a game over 10 games).