Start Jayden Daniels or Aaron Rodgers? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Jayden Daniels over Aaron Rodgers
- Market projects
- 18.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 2
- Market projects
- 14.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 99%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Jayden Daniels over Aaron Rodgers in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Jayden Daniels at 18.0 points and Aaron Rodgers at 14.5, a gap of 3.5.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 14.5 fantasy points for Aaron Rodgers, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Aaron Rodgers at 222.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 0.5 rushing yards, with a 8% chance to score a touchdown (12, 15, 6 and 14 market sources).
Player markets imply 18.0 fantasy points for Jayden Daniels, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Jayden Daniels at 198.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 30.5 rushing yards, with a 28% chance to score a touchdown (13, 16, 11 and 13 market sources).
That puts Jayden Daniels 3.5 points ahead of Aaron Rodgers on the market projections.
Injury status
Aaron Rodgers is not on the injury report.
Jayden Daniels is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Aaron Rodgers played 99 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 167 times and threw an average of 9.4 air yards per attempt.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 1 against ATL: 67 of 67 snaps, 24 of 40 passes for 221 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 2 against NE: 67 of 70 snaps, 23 of 39 passes for 187 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 5 yards.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 3 against CIN: 62 of 62 snaps, 19 of 33 passes for 292 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 12 yards.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 4 against CLE: 72 of 72 snaps, 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards, 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
Through Week 2, Jayden Daniels played 77 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 61 times and threw an average of 9.3 air yards per attempt.
Jayden Daniels, Week 1 against PHI: 70 of 70 snaps, 18 of 34 passes for 164 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 5 carries for 31 yards.
Jayden Daniels, Week 2 against DAL: 39 of 71 snaps, 11 of 17 passes for 96 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 7 carries for 69 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Aaron Rodgers played 16 games for PIT and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.
He completed 327 of 498 passes for 3322 yards, 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran 21 times for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
In 2025, Jayden Daniels played 7 games for WAS and scored 117.3 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB34.
He completed 114 of 188 passes for 1262 yards, 8 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran 58 times for 278 yards and 2 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB5 · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 59
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
Ranked behind
QB25 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 121
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board62
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 5 and tier 8
- Board size258 draftable players
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