Should I start Brian Robinson or Drake Maye in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:16 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Drake Maye: 94 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Brian Robinson's 30 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Brian Robinson for Drake Maye?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 181 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Brian Robinson

RB10 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Market-based projection: 8.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 31

Drake Maye

QB2 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 2-4

Market-based projection: 19.5 pts a game

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The gap

Board size297 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson, and the board ranks him 31st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Brian Robinson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 19.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 1st highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Brian Robinson has been on the field for 33 percent of ATL snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he carried 14 times for 62 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against BAL he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CHI he carried 2 times for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Drake Maye has been on the field for 96 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brian Robinson played 17 games and scored 62.5 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing RB63.

He carried 92 times for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 12 targets for 25 more yards.

That came to 5.4 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson 3.7, 17.5 a game between them.

Brian Robinson finished RB63 and Drake Maye QB2, which are two different ladders.

Brian Robinson is a running back and Drake Maye a quarterback, 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

Brian Robinson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Brian Robinson for Drake Maye?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 181 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Drake Maye for Brian Robinson?
No. Keep Drake Maye: he projects 181 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).