Head to head · July 2026 draft-day read
Jaxson Dart or Jordan Love?
Jaxson Dart was the stronger 2025 producer — 17.3 vs 15.7 half-PPR points per game, at essentially the same July 2026 draft cost (ADP 125.5 vs 129.1). That gap was the draft-day case for Jaxson Dart.
This week's projections are in the Week 6 start/sit card below. The July 2026 draft-day read that follows is opinion, framed from the cited 2025 data.
This week's start/sit · Half-PPR
Week 6: start Jaxson Dart or Jordan Love?
Jordan Love by default: Jaxson Dart is on injured reserve in Week 6.
Jordan Love projects for 19.6 pts.
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QB · GB
Jordan Love
19.6 pts projected · range 8.7–30.7
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Can't start · Injured reserve
Jaxson Dart
On injured reserve (NYG, as of the Week 5 roster) — can't start in Week 6.
2026 season · the games so far
2026 head-to-head so far
Through Week 5, Jordan Love has out-scored Jaxson Dart by 4.3 PPR points per game, 18.0 to 13.7 (Jaxson Dart 2 games, Jordan Love 5 games).
Through Week 5 · Week 5 in progress — 13 of 15 games final · nflverse stats as of
| Jaxson Dart | Metric | Jordan Love |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Games | 5 |
| 13.7 | PPR points per game | 18.0 |
| 125.0 | Pass yards per game | 281.6 |
| 5.5 | Carries per game | 1.4 |
| 56% | Snap share | 100% |
| 13.7 | PPR points per game, last 3 games | 18.9 |
Purple marks the higher figure. Shares are team-relative, averaged per game; snap share counts only games with a published snap count. "Last 3 games" is each player's own last 3 games played. A dash means no 2026 figure. 2026 regular season via nflverse.
Game by game: Jaxson Dart · Jordan Love
Draft-day record · July 2026
The July 2026 draft-day read
This is the July 2026 pre-draft read, kept as published. Every ADP and market figure on this page comes from the Fantasy Football Calculator snapshot of Jul 15, 2026 and is not updated in-season — 2026 drafts are over and ADP has stopped moving. In-season tools
Metric by metric
The tale of the tape
| Jaxson Dart | Metric | Jordan Love |
|---|---|---|
| 125.5 (QB16) | Draft ADP (July 2026) | 129.1 (QB17) |
| 129 | Overall ADP rank (July 2026) | 132 |
| 17.3 | Fantasy points / game | 15.7 |
| +5.7 | Points over expected (FPOE) | — |
| 24 | Sleeper search rank (July 2026) | 50 |
Purple marks the better figure. A dash means the engine did not cite that metric for that player. 2025 regular season via nflverse · ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator, Jul 15, 2026 snapshot.
xFP (expected fantasy points) is what a typical player would score with the same targets, carries and field position. FPOE (points over expected) is actual points minus xFP, per game.
The consensus read
July 2026 drafts separated them by a hair — Jaxson Dart at ADP 125.5, Jordan Love at ADP 129.1. On 2025 production it is 17.3 vs 15.7 half-PPR points per game.
What had to be true
This call flipped on beliefs that were checkable at the time. Every belief was tied to a checkpoint: the exact data point that would confirm or deny it, with its value at the time of the July 2026 read.
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Checkpoint · Jaxson Dart
Points over expected (FPOE) per game, season (2025)
+5.7 pts/gm vs expectation (2025) · as of July 2026
Strong move if you believed
Jaxson Dart's scoring over expected (xFP) is skill, not variance
Poor move if instead
Jaxson Dart's scoring over expected regresses to the xFP baseline
Sources: Fantasy Football Calculator · Sleeper · nflverse. Every figure here is a value the analysis engine cited from the underlying data. Stats are 2025 regular season via nflverse (CC-BY 4.0); ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot, not updated in-season).
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