Should I start Matthew Stafford 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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Matthew Stafford over Jayden Daniels
- Market projects
- 21.3
- fantasy pts
- ARI D vs QB
- 23.2
- 3rd most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 19.3
- fantasy pts
- SF D vs QB
- 13.7
- 5th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 84%
- Through Week 5
Matthew Stafford's market-based projection is 2.0 points a game ahead of Jayden Daniels's this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market-based projection is the live read on these two.
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QB3 · LAR · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Market-based projection
- 21.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB5 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Market-based projection
- 19.3 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
- Price difference2.0 points a game
- Board size317 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.
The market-based projections
Matthew Stafford's market-based projection is 21.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.
Jayden Daniels's market-based projection is 19.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Stafford: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.
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.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 97 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 224 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 224 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 3 against DEN he completed 30 of 53 passes for 390 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.
In Week 4 against PHI he completed 32 of 51 passes for 317 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.
In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.
He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 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.
Matthew Stafford was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Jayden Daniels 16.8, 4.3 a game between them.
Matthew Stafford finished QB3 that year and Jayden Daniels QB34.
Matthew Stafford had 409 more pass attempts than Jayden Daniels, 597 to 188.
Matthew Stafford had 3445 more passing yards than Jayden Daniels, 4707 to 1262.
This season Matthew Stafford holds the bigger snap share, 97 percent against 84 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Matthew Stafford is off in Week 11 and Jayden Daniels in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
2.0 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.
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