Start Drake Maye or Jayden Daniels? Week 5
Locked at kickoff. Graded after.
Start Drake Maye over Jayden Daniels
Right: 39.5 to 32.3
- Market projected
- 18.5
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 95%
- Through Week 4
- Scored
- 39.5
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 17.8
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 2
- Scored
- 32.3
- PPR pts
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Our Week 5 call
Start Drake Maye over Jayden Daniels in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Drake Maye at 18.5 points and Jayden Daniels at 17.8, a gap of 0.7. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 18.5 fantasy points for Drake Maye, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Drake Maye at 225.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 31.5 rushing yards, with a 20% chance to score a touchdown (16, 18, 15 and 18 market sources).
Player markets imply 17.8 fantasy points for Jayden Daniels, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Jayden Daniels at 193.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 30.5 rushing yards, with a 28% chance to score a touchdown (17, 18, 17 and 18 market sources).
That puts Drake Maye 0.7 points ahead of Jayden Daniels on the market projections.
Injury status
Drake Maye is not on the injury report.
Jayden Daniels is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Drake Maye played 95 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 141 times and threw an average of 9.1 air yards per attempt.
Drake Maye, Week 1 against SEA: 71 of 71 snaps, 23 of 33 passes for 178 yards, 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions, 7 carries for 47 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 2 against PIT: 55 of 55 snaps, 14 of 22 passes for 208 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 2 carries for 20 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 3 against JAX: 51 of 63 snaps, 14 of 25 passes for 199 yards, 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 4 carries for 18 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 4 against BUF: 76 of 76 snaps, 22 of 37 passes for 269 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 6 carries for 56 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, Drake Maye played 17 games for NE and scored 360.0 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB2.
He completed 354 of 492 passes for 4394 yards, 31 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran 103 times for 450 yards and 4 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 97 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.
How Week 5 went
Drake Maye scored 39.5 PPR points and Jayden Daniels scored 32.3.
The call was right: Drake Maye outscored Jayden Daniels by 7.2.
Drake Maye finished 20.9 points above the 18.5 the market projected.
Drake Maye, Week 5 against LV: 26 of 34 passes for 374 yards, 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 7 carries for 25 yards, 39.5 PPR points.
Drake Maye finished as the week's QB1 in PPR scoring.
Jayden Daniels finished 14.4 points above the 17.8 the market projected.
Jayden Daniels, Week 5 against NYG: 17 of 25 passes for 199 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 9 carries for 103 yards, 32.3 PPR points.
Jayden Daniels finished as the week's QB2 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB5 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 55
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
QB7 · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs pass yds line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 67
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. This call locked at kickoff and was not edited after. It is on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board12
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 4
- Board size289 draftable players
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