Jaden McDaniels

Minnesota Timberwolves#3SF / PF6'9"185 lb26 years old

Fantasy outlook · 26-27 season

Balanced, efficient forward with no glaring weakness

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Rank 68 in both 2025‑26 and 2026‑27 says trust the floor; his FT% dip over eight games should rebound.

Latest news · 2 d agoMcDaniels finished with 23 points (8-19 FG, 2-7 3Pt, 5-5 FT), six rebounds, five assists, one steal and two blocks over 40 minutes in Friday's 115-109 win over the Pelicans.

Pros: Nothing stands out
Cons: Nothing stands out
Rank: #4820 from #68 in 25-26Only 10 games

Headline, verdict and take by AI from these stats and recent news · Nov 8

Latest news

2 d ago
McDaniels finished with 23 points (8-19 FG, 2-7 3Pt, 5-5 FT), six rebounds, five assists, one steal and two blocks over 40 minutes in Friday's 115-109 win over the Pelicans.
McDaniels snapped a three-game swat-less streak during Friday's win, and he got some triples to drop after going 0-for-7 from beyond the arc in his previous outing. The 26-year-old vet is off to his best start yet, averaging 17.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.4 triples, and 1.7 stocks per contest, which has him flirting with top-50 value on the year.
3 d ago
McDaniels finished Wednesday's 117-107 victory over Houston with 14 points (7-14 FG, 0-6 3Pt), eight rebounds, four assists and two steals over 37 minutes.
McDaniels remains a reliable presence on the wing for Minnesota, having collected at least 13 points and six boards in eight of his first nine appearances. He's averaged 16.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 0.9 steals in 33.2 minutes per game this season.
5 d ago
McDaniels provided 13 points (5-14 FG, 2-4 3Pt, 1-3 FT), six rebounds and three assists across 29 minutes during Monday's 112-100 victory over the Bucks.
McDaniels struggled with his efficiency, converting just five of his 14 field-goal attempts while failing to record a steal or block. He also played fewer than 30 minutes for the first time since the season opener. Despite the relatively quiet showing, McDaniels has scored in double figures in all eight appearances this season and remains a useful contributor across multiple categories.
Oct 31
McDaniels recorded 23 points (11-15 FG, 1-2 3Pt), six rebounds, seven assists, one block and one steal over 33 minutes during Friday's 127-101 win over the Clippers.
McDaniels made the most of his expanded offensive role Friday, delivering his best scoring output of the season and his first game with at least 20 points while also contributing in other areas. McDaniels is enjoying an excellent start to the season and has embraced a more prominent role on offense early. He's scored at least 14 points in each of his six appearances and is averaging 17.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.7 assists and a combined 1.7 steals-plus-blocks thus far.
Oct 29
McDaniels contributed 19 points (8-18 FG, 1-8 3Pt, 2-3 FT), seven rebounds and four assists across 35 minutes in Wednesday's 119-114 loss to the Warriors.
McDaniels attempted 18 shots, reflecting increased offensive involvement with Anthony Edwards (knee) unavailable. However, McDaniels connected on just one of eight three-point attempts and recorded no steals or blocks, limiting his overall fantasy production. His seven rebounds and four assists were encouraging, and the additional scoring opportunities could boost his value as Minnesota adjusts to Edwards' absence. McDaniels hasn't recorded a steal in four games and has just five blocks in five contests. Still, he's averaging 15.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists per contest.

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23-24 season

Rank#195

Value-0.43

Games72

Minutes29.2

Points10.5

Rebounds3.1

Assists1.4

FG% · FT%.489 · .722

Category z-scores · rank 195 of 572

FG%

0.02

FT%

-0.32

3PM

-0.53

PTS

-1.06

REB

-1.05

AST

-1.18

STL

-0.34

BLK

-0.24

0.80

Game log

Date	Opp	Result	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	3P	FT	+/-	Value
Apr 14	vs PHX	L 106-125	28	6	0	1	0	0	3	2-7	1-4	1-2	-11	-1.78
Apr 12	vs ATL	W 109-106	30	11	3	1	0	1	0	4-7	3-4	0-0	+8	-0.16
Apr 10	@ DEN	L 107-116	34	9	2	3	1	0	0	4-8	1-4	0-0	-17	-0.31
Apr 9	vs WAS	W 130-121	28	9	5	2	1	1	0	3-6	1-4	2-2	-10	0.12
Apr 7	@ LAL	W 127-117	29	11	3	2	0	0	0	5-9	0-2	1-1	+4	-0.56
Apr 5	@ PHX	L 87-97	26	6	2	1	1	1	2	3-6	0-2	0-0	-10	-0.65
Apr 3	vs TOR	W 133-85	25	8	4	2	2	3	1	3-8	0-1	2-2	+12	0.39
Apr 2	vs HOU	W 113-106	27	8	3	1	2	0	3	4-9	0-3	0-0	+13	-0.66
Mar 31	vs CHI	L 101-109	33	8	6	3	1	0	2	3-10	1-6	1-2	-2	-0.98
Mar 29	@ DEN	W 111-98	31	17	3	3	1	0	0	7-10	1-3	2-2	+9	0.36
Mar 27	vs DET	W 106-91	28	20	4	0	0	0	0	8-14	3-7	1-1	+4	-0.04
Mar 24	vs GSW	W 114-110	30	8	4	1	0	0	1	3-8	2-6	0-0	-4	-0.87
Mar 22	vs CLE	W 104-91	32	15	4	0	3	2	5	6-10	2-4	1-4	+15	-0.45
Mar 19	vs DEN	L 112-115	38	26	6	0	1	2	1	9-13	4-6	4-7	0	0.41
Mar 18	@ UTA	W 114-104	33	9	8	1	1	2	0	4-13	1-5	0-0	+2	-0.14
Mar 16	@ UTA	W 119-100	22	8	1	0	0	0	1	4-9	0-2	0-0	+9	-1.18
Mar 12	@ LAC	W 118-100	23	0	4	1	2	0	1	0-8	0-4	0-0	-8	-1.05
Mar 10	@ LAL	L 109-120	32	10	6	1	2	0	0	5-17	0-5	0-0	-22	-0.54
Mar 8	@ CLE	L 104-113	40	13	5	2	0	0	1	5-11	1-4	2-3	-15	-0.86
Mar 7	@ IND	W 113-111	28	11	8	6	0	0	0	4-7	1-1	2-2	+7	0.03
Mar 4	vs POR	W 119-114	24	9	4	1	0	0	0	3-7	0-3	3-6	-9	-1.54
Mar 3	vs LAC	L 88-89	33	6	2	1	1	1	1	3-9	0-4	0-0	+5	-0.75
Mar 1	vs SAC	L 120-124	45	26	7	1	0	0	1	9-11	5-7	3-4	-8	0.57
Feb 28	vs MEM	W 110-101	34	12	2	3	0	3	1	5-7	2-4	0-0	+2	0.23
Feb 27	vs SAS	W 114-105	26	2	5	1	3	2	3	1-5	0-1	0-0	-1	-0.11
Feb 24	vs BKN	W 101-86	33	7	2	1	0	0	3	2-4	2-4	1-2	+4	-1.33
Feb 23	vs MIL	L 107-112	24	2	1	3	1	1	0	1-5	0-1	0-0	-8	-0.63
Feb 15	@ POR	W 128-91	28	17	5	1	2	0	2	6-11	1-4	4-4	+22	0.30
Feb 13	@ POR	W 121-109	24	0	2	0	0	1	0	0-7	0-3	0-0	-6	-1.43
Feb 12	@ LAC	W 121-100	25	11	0	1	1	1	2	5-8	1-4	0-0	+8	-0.37
Feb 8	@ MIL	W 129-105	19	8	3	0	0	2	1	3-5	2-4	0-0	+16	-0.32
Feb 6	@ CHI	L 123-129	40	13	1	3	1	0	4	6-11	1-3	0-0	+1	-0.75
Feb 4	vs HOU	W 111-90	29	5	4	2	0	1	2	2-7	1-3	0-0	+27	-1.00
Feb 2	vs ORL	L 106-108	32	10	4	1	1	0	3	4-10	2-6	0-0	-12	-0.77
Jan 31	vs DAL	W 121-87	24	11	2	4	0	0	1	5-10	0-4	1-1	+12	-0.72
Jan 29	@ OKC	W 107-101	31	14	3	1	1	0	0	6-11	2-5	0-0	+10	-0.08
Jan 27	@ SAS	L 112-113	33	7	3	2	4	0	0	2-5	1-3	2-2	+11	0.71
Jan 25	@ BKN	W 96-94	33	9	4	1	0	0	0	4-6	1-1	0-0	+2	-0.50
Jan 24	@ WAS	W 118-107	30	13	5	0	2	0	1	5-11	1-4	2-2	+10	0.01
Jan 22	vs CHA	L 125-128	35	9	5	4	1	0	1	3-9	2-7	1-2	-4	-0.63
Jan 20	vs OKC	L 97-102	27	15	2	0	0	0	2	6-11	3-5	0-1	-12	-0.96
Jan 18	vs MEM	W 118-103	36	11	3	0	1	1	2	5-9	1-2	0-0	+5	-0.37
Jan 17	@ DET	W 124-117	30	23	3	0	1	0	1	8-11	3-4	4-4	+4	0.62
Jan 14	vs LAC	W 109-105	35	14	4	4	2	0	4	6-10	2-3	0-0	+4	-0.03
Jan 12	vs POR	W 116-93	24	9	2	3	2	0	4	4-8	1-3	0-0	+36	-0.53
Jan 10	@ BOS	L 120-127	24	5	1	1	0	0	1	2-8	1-4	0-0	-12	-1.32
Jan 9	@ ORL	W 113-92	35	15	9	1	1	0	2	6-10	2-5	1-1	+35	0.07
Jan 7	@ DAL	L 108-115	37	2	3	4	0	0	0	1-10	0-5	0-0	-7	-1.42
Jan 5	@ HOU	W 122-95	30	16	3	0	1	0	0	7-10	2-3	0-0	+14	0.15
Jan 3	vs NOP	L 106-117	33	11	0	2	2	1	1	5-10	1-3	0-0	-19	-0.01
Jan 1	@ NYK	L 106-112	33	8	1	0	1	1	1	2-8	1-5	3-4	-9	-0.86
Dec 30	vs LAL	W 108-106	26	6	3	2	1	1	1	2-6	0-1	2-2	-3	-0.43
Dec 28	vs DAL	W 118-110	34	12	0	0	1	4	2	5-8	2-3	0-1	+4	0.01
Dec 26	@ OKC	L 106-129	27	8	1	1	1	1	2	3-10	0-3	2-2	-16	-0.83
Dec 23	@ SAC	W 110-98	41	20	5	1	4	1	0	8-16	3-9	1-2	+12	1.13
Dec 21	vs LAL	W 118-111	36	14	1	3	1	0	1	5-8	2-4	2-2	-3	0.02
Dec 20	@ PHI	L 113-127	38	21	3	0	1	0	0	8-12	2-3	3-5	-3	-0.14
Dec 18	@ MIA	W 112-108	30	10	5	2	0	3	3	5-10	0-0	0-0	+1	-0.46
Dec 16	vs IND	W 127-109	18	5	1	0	1	0	1	2-4	1-1	0-0	+8	-0.72
Dec 14	@ DAL	W 119-101	24	11	2	1	0	1	0	5-9	0-2	1-1	+7	-0.45
Dec 11	@ NOP	L 107-121	27	12	3	0	0	0	1	5-12	2-6	0-1	-3	-1.18
Nov 20	vs NYK	W 117-100	5	4	1	0	0	0	1	2-2	0-0	0-0	+1	-1.03
Nov 18	@ NOP	W 121-120	34	12	2	1	0	0	2	5-7	1-2	1-1	+8	-0.65
Nov 15	@ PHX	L 115-133	23	13	2	3	2	0	1	6-10	0-3	1-1	-5	0.09
Nov 14	@ GSW	W 104-101	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	+2	-1.25
Nov 12	@ GSW	W 116-110	35	13	0	1	0	0	0	6-8	1-2	0-0	+8	-0.43
Nov 10	@ SAS	W 117-110	26	10	5	0	2	0	0	5-11	0-2	0-0	-1	-0.16
Nov 8	vs NOP	W 122-101	26	10	0	3	0	0	0	4-7	2-5	0-0	+18	-0.52
Nov 6	vs BOS	W 114-109	45	20	2	1	1	0	3	8-18	4-9	0-0	-6	-0.44
Nov 4	vs UTA	W 123-95	20	5	0	1	1	1	0	2-4	1-2	0-0	+10	-0.37
Nov 1	vs DEN	W 110-89	21	6	9	2	0	2	4	3-5	0-1	0-0	+19	-0.63
Oct 30	@ ATL	L 113-127	24	12	3	2	0	1	0	5-6	2-2	0-0	-8	0.04

By season

Season	Team	GP	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG%	FT%	3PM
26-27	MIN	10	34.0	17.1	6.2	3.7	0.9	0.8	1.8	.511	.765	1.4
25-26	MIN	73	31.7	14.8	4.3	2.7	1.1	1.0	1.8	.515	.835	1.4
24-25	MIN	82	31.9	12.2	5.7	2.0	1.3	0.9	1.2	.477	.813	1.2
23-24	MIN	72	29.2	10.5	3.1	1.4	0.9	0.6	1.2	.489	.722	1.2
22-23	MIN	79	30.6	12.1	3.9	1.9	0.9	1.0	1.4	.517	.736	1.4
21-22	MIN	70	25.7	9.2	4.2	1.1	0.7	0.8	1.1	.460	.803	1.1
20-21	MIN	63	24.0	6.8	3.7	1.1	0.6	0.9	0.8	.447	.600	1.1
Career		449	29.2	11.2	4.2	1.8	0.9	0.9	1.3	.490	.774	1.3