Should I start Baker Mayfield or Rashid Shaheed in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Baker Mayfield, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashid Shaheed, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 50.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Baker Mayfield is 16.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 5 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Rashid Shaheed's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Baker Mayfield's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 3, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 98 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 118 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 118 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 1 against CIN he completed 23 of 28 passes for 216 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 31 yards.

In Week 2 against CLE he completed 21 of 34 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 29 yards.

In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.

Through Week 6, Rashid Shaheed has been on the field for 52 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 2 times for 33 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 20 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.

He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

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

In 2025 Rashid Shaheed played 18 games and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashid Shaheed was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Baker Mayfield scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Rashid Shaheed 8.7, 7.9 a game between them.

Baker Mayfield finished QB12 and Rashid Shaheed WR39, which are two different ladders.

Baker Mayfield is a quarterback and Rashid Shaheed a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10 and Rashid Shaheed in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Baker Mayfield is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Baker Mayfield has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.