Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Braelon Allen in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 5.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 210 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 210 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

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.

In Week 6 against LAC he completed 23 of 30 passes for 272 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 19 yards.

In Week 7 against SEA he completed 19 of 33 passes for 165 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

Through Week 7, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 64 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 53 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 0.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against CLE he carried 24 times for 116 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NE he carried 17 times for 78 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he carried 17 times for 104 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

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 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Patrick Mahomes was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Braelon Allen 3.8, 17.4 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Braelon Allen RB100, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Braelon Allen a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5 and Braelon Allen in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Braelon Allen is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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