Should I start Drake Maye or Alvin Kamara in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 19.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 7.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Drake Maye has been on the field for 97 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 214 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 214 dropbacks and scrambled 20 times.

In Week 4 against BUF he completed 22 of 37 passes for 269 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 56 yards.

In Week 5 against LV he completed 26 of 34 passes for 374 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 29 yards.

In Week 6 against NYJ he completed 18 of 32 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

Through Week 6, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 31 percent of NO snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 2 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he carried 7 times for 23 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 35 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for -6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 7 times for 34 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Drake Maye played 17 games and scored 360.0 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB2.

He threw for 4394 yards on 492 attempts with 31 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 450 yards and 4 touchdowns.

That came to 28.9 attempts a game at 8.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Alvin Kamara played 11 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing RB46.

He carried 131 times for 471 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 33 of 39 targets for 186 more yards.

That came to 11.9 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Drake Maye was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Alvin Kamara 9.2, 12.0 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Alvin Kamara RB46, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Alvin Kamara a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Drake Maye is off in Week 11 and Alvin Kamara in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

12.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.