QB IND Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Daniel Jones?

The verdict comes from our weekly projection model: last season's opportunity-based xFP/g shrunk toward the position mean, then adjusted for role, injury status, the opponent's fantasy points allowed and the Vegas game total vs the league average.

Start

#10 QB projection this week — comfortable start.

Start call: Daniel Jones projects for 16.7 PPR points this week, ranked #10 among QBs by our projection model. @PIT is a soft matchup for QBs — the model applies a +10% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 47.5 — 101% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Daniel Jones projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 16.3
2 14.9
3 13.1
4 17.8
5 this week 16.7
6 17.0
7 13.1
8 14.9
9 17.4
10 16.2
11 13.1
12 16.3
13 —
14 14.1
15 16.8
16 16.5
17 13.4
18 14.9

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