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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25-26 season

Rank#68

Value-0.02

Games73

Minutes31.7

Points14.8

Rebounds4.3

Assists2.7

FG% · FT%.515 · .835

Category z-scores · rank 68 of 582

FG%

0.48

FT%

0.25

3PM

-0.27

PTS

-0.31

REB

-0.69

AST

-0.52

STL

0.08

BLK

0.64

0.15

Game log

Date	Opp	Result	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	3P	FT	+/-	Value
Apr 10	@ HOU	W 136-132	35	16	7	2	0	4	0	8-19	0-3	0-0	-1	0.25
Apr 8	@ ORL	L 120-132	19	18	2	2	1	0	2	8-16	1-5	1-2	-13	-0.69
Mar 25	vs HOU	W 110-108	37	25	2	0	2	2	1	10-17	3-4	2-3	-6	0.76
Mar 22	@ BOS	W 102-92	33	19	6	3	0	0	2	8-18	3-7	0-0	-3	-0.45
Mar 20	vs POR	L 104-108	40	16	6	3	5	1	1	6-11	0-1	4-6	-11	0.91
Mar 18	vs UTA	W 147-111	26	17	2	3	1	1	1	7-15	3-7	0-0	+11	0.05
Mar 17	vs PHX	W 116-104	37	16	7	4	3	1	0	6-12	1-3	3-4	-4	0.82
Mar 15	@ OKC	L 103-116	16	2	1	1	0	0	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	-17	-1.41
Mar 13	@ GSW	W 127-117	30	15	1	2	1	1	4	6-9	1-3	2-2	+7	-0.27
Mar 11	@ LAC	L 128-153	31	11	2	3	0	0	3	5-6	1-1	0-0	-40	-0.68
Mar 10	@ LAL	L 106-120	26	6	2	0	1	0	2	3-9	0-5	0-0	-10	-1.21
Mar 7	vs ORL	L 92-119	29	3	4	2	3	0	2	0-9	0-4	3-4	-23	-1.06
Mar 5	vs TOR	W 115-107	21	8	2	4	1	0	2	3-6	1-3	1-1	+2	-0.52
Mar 3	vs MEM	W 117-110	32	16	7	1	1	0	1	6-8	0-1	4-4	+5	0.27
Mar 1	@ DEN	W 117-108	33	20	1	3	1	0	2	9-12	0-3	2-2	+20	0.08
Feb 26	@ LAC	W 94-88	32	12	7	2	3	0	1	5-10	0-1	2-2	-1	0.36
Feb 24	@ POR	W 124-121	37	29	6	2	3	5	3	12-16	5-6	0-1	+10	2.32
Feb 22	vs PHI	L 108-135	34	19	6	2	1	3	3	5-12	0-4	9-9	-21	0.59
Feb 20	vs DAL	W 122-111	34	7	8	5	2	1	6	3-11	1-4	0-1	+1	-1.01
Feb 11	vs POR	W 133-109	33	21	6	6	2	2	2	7-13	2-3	5-6	+16	0.97
Feb 9	vs ATL	W 138-116	34	18	5	3	1	4	0	7-11	2-3	2-4	+25	0.83
Feb 8	vs LAC	L 96-115	28	2	2	0	1	0	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	-12	-1.21
Feb 6	vs NOP	L 115-119	22	6	1	2	0	0	2	2-8	0-3	2-2	+1	-1.38
Feb 4	@ TOR	W 128-126	40	19	1	4	0	2	1	8-13	1-3	2-2	-1	0.29
Feb 2	@ MEM	L 128-137	37	29	4	3	0	0	0	11-14	5-7	2-2	+2	1.12
Jan 31	@ MEM	W 131-114	34	20	4	2	0	0	3	8-14	3-5	1-1	-1	-0.33
Jan 29	vs OKC	W 123-111	31	21	4	4	0	2	2	8-11	5-5	0-0	+18	0.80
Jan 28	@ DAL	W 118-105	30	8	2	2	0	0	0	3-8	2-5	0-0	-4	-0.76
Jan 26	vs GSW	W 108-83	30	14	3	3	0	3	3	4-9	2-4	4-4	+17	0.08
Jan 25	vs GSW	L 85-111	28	3	3	1	1	0	4	1-8	1-1	0-0	-13	-1.58
Jan 22	vs CHI	L 115-120	36	16	5	5	0	1	2	6-9	2-2	2-2	+2	0.21
Jan 20	@ UTA	L 122-127	35	18	6	6	1	1	5	7-16	2-7	2-2	+3	-0.19
Jan 17	@ SAS	L 123-126	41	23	5	5	1	1	1	7-14	1-2	8-9	-6	0.55
Jan 16	@ HOU	L 105-110	35	15	7	4	2	2	1	5-14	1-4	4-5	-5	0.34
Jan 13	@ MIL	W 139-106	30	17	6	5	0	2	1	6-9	4-6	1-2	+24	0.52
Jan 11	vs SAS	W 104-103	36	12	5	1	2	3	1	5-9	0-3	2-2	-3	0.69
Jan 10	@ CLE	L 134-146	27	12	1	1	0	0	1	4-7	0-2	4-5	-17	-0.90
Jan 8	vs CLE	W 131-122	38	26	5	1	2	0	1	11-14	3-4	1-4	+12	0.31
Jan 6	vs MIA	W 122-94	34	19	3	2	2	1	1	7-15	1-4	4-5	+18	0.15
Jan 4	@ WAS	W 141-115	22	12	5	5	3	0	1	3-4	0-0	6-6	+14	0.86
Jan 3	@ MIA	W 125-115	34	5	2	3	2	2	2	2-4	1-2	0-0	+1	0.03
Dec 31	@ ATL	L 102-126	22	8	4	2	0	1	2	3-5	2-3	0-0	-12	-0.48
Dec 29	@ CHI	W 136-101	23	7	5	3	0	0	0	3-9	1-1	0-0	+12	-0.78
Dec 27	vs BKN	L 107-123	33	16	3	4	1	0	2	7-11	1-1	1-2	-4	-0.34
Dec 25	@ DEN	L 138-142	40	21	4	4	0	2	3	9-12	1-3	2-2	+4	0.43
Dec 21	vs MIL	W 103-100	9	0	1	1	0	0	0	0-4	0-1	0-0	-12	-1.42
Dec 19	vs OKC	W 112-107	37	13	4	2	0	0	2	4-13	1-6	4-4	-5	-0.93
Dec 17	vs MEM	L 110-116	37	13	7	6	1	1	1	4-11	1-2	4-4	+9	0.25
Dec 14	vs SAC	W 117-103	38	21	4	2	2	0	2	7-19	1-7	6-6	+18	-0.05
Dec 12	@ GSW	W 127-120	35	17	5	5	1	0	3	8-15	1-5	0-1	0	-0.54
Dec 8	vs PHX	L 105-108	40	4	6	3	0	1	1	1-7	0-5	2-3	0	-1.13
Dec 6	vs LAC	W 109-106	37	27	1	2	2	1	2	10-13	3-3	4-5	+1	0.96
Dec 4	@ NOP	W 125-116	35	14	7	5	2	2	2	6-14	0-2	2-2	+6	0.43
Dec 2	@ NOP	W 149-142	33	17	4	2	1	1	0	7-10	3-3	0-0	+5	0.64
Nov 30	vs SAS	W 125-112	33	13	4	3	1	0	0	6-13	1-4	0-0	+14	-0.24
Nov 29	vs BOS	W 119-115	26	8	4	3	1	1	2	3-8	2-4	0-0	+24	-0.38
Nov 26	@ OKC	L 105-113	30	10	6	3	0	0	3	3-6	2-2	2-2	0	-0.60
Nov 24	@ SAC	L 112-117	37	6	8	2	2	0	4	3-10	0-3	0-0	-6	-0.89
Nov 21	@ PHX	L 113-114	40	13	5	2	4	0	1	5-12	0-5	3-3	+9	0.48
Nov 17	vs DAL	W 120-96	23	15	5	3	2	1	3	4-6	3-4	4-5	+15	0.39
Nov 15	vs DEN	L 112-123	33	15	4	3	2	2	0	7-15	1-3	0-0	-18	0.54
Nov 14	vs SAC	W 124-110	31	13	4	3	0	0	4	6-9	0-2	1-1	+4	-0.81
Nov 10	@ UTA	W 120-113	35	16	6	3	2	0	1	6-13	1-2	3-3	+8	0.26
Nov 9	@ SAC	W 144-117	26	21	5	3	0	2	2	8-10	2-3	3-3	+15	0.74
Nov 7	vs UTA	W 137-97	27	22	7	1	3	2	2	9-14	3-3	1-2	+35	1.14
Nov 5	@ NYK	L 114-137	32	13	4	3	0	0	3	4-10	3-5	2-2	-7	-0.68
Nov 3	@ BKN	W 125-109	29	22	3	3	2	1	2	9-11	2-3	2-3	+23	0.75
Nov 1	@ CHA	W 122-105	32	14	4	6	0	0	3	6-10	2-2	0-0	+5	-0.41
Oct 29	vs LAL	L 115-116	41	30	7	1	1	0	2	11-19	3-4	5-5	+10	0.75
Oct 27	vs DEN	L 114-127	35	25	3	1	0	4	2	10-16	1-3	4-4	-13	0.87
Oct 26	vs IND	W 114-110	35	11	5	1	1	2	0	3-13	1-6	4-6	-6	-0.67
Oct 24	@ LAL	L 110-128	27	10	2	0	0	1	0	5-12	0-4	0-0	-14	-0.82
Oct 22	@ POR	W 118-114	29	18	5	2	1	3	3	6-12	3-4	3-4	+3	0.34

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