Should I start Drake Maye or Amon-Ra St. Brown in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 20.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

Amon-Ra St. Brown's market-based projection is 18.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 5th highest figure of the 208 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 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Amon-Ra St. Brown, and the board ranks him 7th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Drake Maye has been on the field for 96 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 318 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 47 of 318 dropbacks and scrambled 27 times.

In Week 7 against CHI he completed 24 of 30 passes for 321 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 26 yards.

In Week 8 against MIA he completed 16 of 20 passes for 199 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 7 yards.

In Week 9 against GB he completed 21 of 38 passes for 299 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.

Through Week 9, Amon-Ra St. Brown has been on the field for 83 percent of DET snaps, drawn 32 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 27 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 5 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 86 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 7 against GB he carried 1 time for -1 yards, caught 9 of 11 targets for 153 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIN he carried 1 time for 10 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against MIA he caught 8 of 10 targets for 86 yards and did not score.

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 Amon-Ra St. Brown played 17 games and scored 324.0 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing WR3.

He caught 117 of 172 targets for 1401 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 34 red zone targets.

That came to 10.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Amon-Ra St. Brown 19.1, 2.1 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Amon-Ra St. Brown WR3, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Amon-Ra St. Brown a wide receiver, 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 Amon-Ra St. Brown in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.3 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.