Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rodgers: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Patrick Mahomes over Aaron Rodgers
- Market projects
- 17.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 14.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 98%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Patrick Mahomes, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB11 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 83
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
QB24 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Rodgers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 17.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Aaron Rodgers's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.
Patrick Mahomes's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 142 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 2 against IND he completed 32 of 47 passes for 382 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
In Week 3 against MIA he completed 20 of 24 passes for 246 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 4 against LV he completed 15 of 30 passes for 225 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
Through Week 5, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 98 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 3 against CIN he completed 19 of 33 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 12 yards.
In Week 4 against CLE he completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
In Week 5 against IND he completed 22 of 31 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes played 14 games and scored 296.7 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB11.
He threw for 3587 yards on 502 attempts with 22 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns.
That came to 35.9 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.
He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Aaron Rodgers was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Aaron Rodgers 14.6, 6.6 a game between them.
Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 that year and Aaron Rodgers QB18.
Patrick Mahomes had 4 more pass attempts than Aaron Rodgers, 502 to 498.
Patrick Mahomes had 265 more passing yards than Aaron Rodgers, 3587 to 3322.
This season Patrick Mahomes holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 98 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5 and Aaron Rodgers in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Patrick Mahomes is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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