Start Dak Prescott or Jayden Daniels? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Dak Prescott over Jayden Daniels
- Market projects
- 21.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 18.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 2
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Our Week 5 call
Start Dak Prescott over Jayden Daniels in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Dak Prescott at 21.8 points and Jayden Daniels at 18.2, a gap of 3.6.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 21.8 fantasy points for Dak Prescott, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Dak Prescott at 265.5 passing yards, 2.5 passing touchdowns and 9.5 rushing yards, with a 15% chance to score a touchdown (15, 18, 16 and 17 market sources).
Player markets imply 18.2 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, 13, 10 and 13 market sources).
That puts Dak Prescott 3.6 points ahead of Jayden Daniels on the market projections.
Injury status
Dak Prescott is not on the injury report.
Jayden Daniels is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Dak Prescott played 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 167 times and threw an average of 7.2 air yards per attempt.
Dak Prescott, Week 1 against NYG: 58 of 58 snaps, 22 of 34 passes for 175 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 2 carries for 14 yards.
Dak Prescott, Week 2 against WAS: 55 of 55 snaps, 26 of 31 passes for 279 yards, 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 4 carries for 26 yards.
Dak Prescott, Week 3 against BAL: 74 of 74 snaps, 25 of 40 passes for 276 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 4 carries for 19 yards.
Dak Prescott, Week 4 against HOU: 78 of 78 snaps, 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 2 carries for 7 yards.
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, Dak Prescott played 17 games for DAL and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.
He completed 404 of 600 passes for 4552 yards, 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran 53 times for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 98 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
QB2 · DAL · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 29
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 2
Ranked behind
QB6 · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 60
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
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 board31
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 2 and tier 5
- Board size222 draftable players
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