Should I start Drake Maye or Bijan Robinson in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bijan Robinson, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Bijan Robinson is 5.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Drake Maye has been on the field for 97 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 249 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 249 dropbacks and scrambled 23 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 7, Bijan Robinson has been on the field for 71 percent of ATL snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 46 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 7 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against BAL he carried 17 times for 86 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CHI he carried 9 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for -8 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SF he carried 20 times for 63 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 45 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 Bijan Robinson played 17 games and scored 370.8 PPR points, 21.8 a game, finishing RB2.

He carried 287 times for 1478 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 79 of 103 targets for 820 more yards.

That came to 16.9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 4.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bijan Robinson scored 21.8 PPR points a game and Drake Maye 21.2, 0.6 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Bijan Robinson RB2, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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