Jayden Daniels or Tyler Shough: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 9:26 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Tyler Shough, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB6 · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Market price
- 18.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB9 · NO · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-0
- Overall rank
- 80
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 25.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Jayden Daniels at 18.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
The market has Tyler Shough at 17.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tyler Shough's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 2, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 77 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 61 times and thrown 9.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 61 dropbacks and scrambled 9 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.
Through Week 4, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 197 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 197 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 2 against BAL he completed 27 of 34 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 24 yards.
In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
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 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.
He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Tyler Shough was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Tyler Shough 14.9, 1.8 a game between them.
Jayden Daniels finished QB34 that year and Tyler Shough QB26.
Tyler Shough had 139 more pass attempts than Jayden Daniels, 327 to 188.
Tyler Shough had 1122 more passing yards than Jayden Daniels, 2384 to 1262.
This season Tyler Shough holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 77 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Tyler Shough is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Jayden Daniels.
Tyler Shough is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Tyler Shough is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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