Should I start Jayden Daniels or Travis Kelce in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Daniels, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Travis Kelce, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jayden Daniels is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 4 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end'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 through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 88 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, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 78 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 4 of 5 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 4 of 8 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 5 of 7 targets for 67 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 Travis Kelce played 17 games and scored 193.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing TE3.

He caught 76 of 108 targets for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.4 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Travis Kelce was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Travis Kelce 11.4, 5.4 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and Travis Kelce TE3, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and Travis Kelce 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 Travis Kelce in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.