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Should I start Jayden Daniels or Shedeur Sanders in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 2:31 AM ET.

Start Jayden Daniels: 84 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 1 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.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Jayden Daniels

QB33 · WAS · on bye this week

2026 vs pass yds line 2-2

Market-based projection
19.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
230

Shedeur Sanders

QB · CLE · bye 11

2025 vs pass td line 2-6

Overall rank
247

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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 230th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 247th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Jayden Daniels, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 3, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 1 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 1 time and thrown -4.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 0 of 1 dropback.

In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

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 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.

He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26-27 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Shedeur Sanders was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Shedeur Sanders 11.9, 4.9 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 that year and Shedeur Sanders QB37.

Shedeur Sanders had 24 more pass attempts than Jayden Daniels, 212 to 188.

Shedeur Sanders had 138 more passing yards than Jayden Daniels, 1400 to 1262.

This season Jayden Daniels holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 1 percent.

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

Byes and availability

Jayden Daniels is off in Week 7 and Shedeur Sanders in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

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