Dak Prescott and Daniel Jones are two of the most solid quarterbacks in the league and will be key pieces for daily fantasy football lineups on DraftKings in Week 1. Stokastic’s industry-leading NFL DFS tools, including the FREE NFL Player Compare tool we can give us a better idea of who offers more daily fantasy football value between Prescott and Jones in their Sunday Night Football Week 1 matchup.
Dak Prescott-Daniel Jones DFS Value for Week 1 (DraftKings)
Prescott and Jones are among the top projected players for Sunday night’s game. The two quarterbacks are nose-to-nose in projection with running backs Tony Pollard and Saquon Barkley. Stokastic’s NFL player projections give Prescott an average of 17.04 fantasy points. Jones is averaging 17.31 points in our model.
The signal callers will touch the ball on every snap, making them two of the highest-upside players to target in the game for Week 1 on DraftKings. Both are standing out in our best showdown plays tool.
If you can only play one of these quarterbacks, we can more easily decipher this decision between the two using Stokastic’s NFL Player Compare tool.
On DraftKings, this is what we find when looking at Prescott vs Jones in a 1v1 comparison:
Head-to-head, we see Stokastic’s NFL DFS projections expect Prescott to come out as the better play on DraftKings. The Stokastic team is working on the boom probabilities for Sunday Night Football, but as it stands, Prescott has only a slightly lower average projection than Prescott at lower ownership. Jones’ ownership is projected to be ~48% owned in the utility spot compared to Prescott at about 44%.
Both quarterbacks have high upside, and while Jones’ is boosted by his ability to pick up yardage with his legs, expect the two to have similar “boom scores.”
Of course, in DFS lineup construction is key. There’s always the possibility of rostering one of, both or neither of these quarterbacks to lower a lineup’s ownership and to decrease the amount it duplicates with other lineups in the field.
For any similar 1v1 and 2v2 decisions as you finalize your NFL DFS and other fantasy teams, be sure to utilize Stokastic’s NFL Player Compare tool as an extra reference.
