Fantasy football is in the air, and the unique offseason is causing more questions than answers as we enter our fantasy football drafts. Today we focus on New York Giants QB Daniel Jones and his fantasy football potential this year.
Daniel Jones’ Fantasy Football ADP
Average Draft Position on MyFantasyLeague: 111.37 (12 teams, PPR redrafts) – 14th among QBs.
Reasons to draft Daniel Jones
- Jones, the sixth-overall pick in the 2019 draft, had a dazzling debut as a starter in Week 3, throwing for 336 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 28 yards and two more scores in a 32-31 shootout win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It added up to 39.6 fantasy points – one of four 30-point-plus games among his 12 starts, which placed him among the league leaders. Overall, Jones averaged 22.1 fantasy points per contest, which ranked 11th among QBs with eight or more starts.
- Jones’ mobility didn’t receive a lot of preseason hype, but it turned out to be a big part of his game as a rookie. He rushed for 20 or more yards in seven of his 12 starts and finished seventh among QBs in rushing yards with 279 on the season.
- For all of Jones’ first-year accomplishments, he wasn’t even playing with a full deck of weapons in the majority of his starts. Stud RB Saquon Barkley missed three games and the remainder of the team’s top five pass-catchers – TE Evan Engram and WRs Sterling Shepard, Golden Tate and Darius Slayton – sat out at least two contests apiece and a combined 21 overall due to a rash of injury issues. Barring a team virus outbreak, that health luck is bound to be better in 2020.
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Reasons not to draft Daniel Jones
- While Jones’ four 30-point fantasy games were impressive, he only topped 20 fantasy points in one of his other eight starts. Outside of best-ball leagues, those boom-or-bust swings don’t exactly work well at what is regarded to be the most steady and consistent fantasy positions.
- Fantasy aside, the Giants’ 2019 season was a 4-12 nightmare overall, and a new head coach (Joe Judge) and offensive coordinator (Jason Garrett) are now in place. This obviously has not been the best offseason to learn a new offense, and the time Jones will need to spend adjusting on the fly could very well wind up curtailing a fair amount of his sophomore season fantasy progression.
- It wasn’t quite a Jameis Winston disaster, but turnovers were a huge issue for Jones as he tossed 12 interceptions and fumbled a league-high 18 times as a rookie, losing 11 of them – also tops among all players. That a negative 46 points in leagues which deduct a pair of points for each turnover, and that red flag could be the deciding factor when comparing Jones and other similarly-ranked QBs in drafts.
Where should I draft Daniel Jones in fantasy football drafts?
In two-quarterback or superflex leagues, Jones will be a sure-fire mid-round target. In 10- or 12-team leagues, he isn’t quite considered starting material but for those fantasy general managers who are mining for a second QB with upside late in drafts, Jones certainly fills the bill.
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