Should I start Jayden Daniels or T.J. Hockenson in Week 9?

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.

T.J. Hockenson's market-based projection is 10.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

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 T.J. Hockenson, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 65 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against IND he caught 4 of 5 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against DET he caught 4 of 5 targets for 58 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 T.J. Hockenson played 15 games and scored 112.8 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing TE26.

He caught 51 of 66 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 8.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

T.J. Hockenson was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and T.J. Hockenson 7.5, 9.2 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and T.J. Hockenson TE26, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and T.J. Hockenson a tight end, 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 T.J. Hockenson in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.3 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.