Should I start Caleb Williams or Drake Maye in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 3:41 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start Drake Maye over Caleb Williams
Maye projects lower, 18.5 to 18.8, and still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player: ADP 50 for Maye, 87 for Williams.
- Market projects
- 18.5
- fantasy pts
- GB D vs QB
- 13.9
- 5th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 98%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 18.8
- fantasy pts
- TB D vs QB
- 13.1
- 4th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 8
Start Drake Maye: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Caleb Williams's 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets. 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 Caleb Williams for Drake Maye?
Not on these numbers alone. Caleb Williams projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games) and Drake Maye 148 (18.5 a game over 8 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 9 the call starts Drake Maye over Caleb Williams.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB3 · CHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 44
QB4 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 18.5 pts a game
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The gap
- Board size302 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 Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Caleb Williams is 18.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 10 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
Caleb Williams's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 97 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 186 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 186 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.
In Week 6 against ATL he completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.
In Week 7 against NE he completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.
In Week 8 against SEA he completed 24 of 34 passes for 247 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 2 yards.
Through Week 8, Drake Maye has been on the field for 98 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 275 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 275 dropbacks and scrambled 26 times.
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.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.
He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 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.
Head to head
In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Caleb Williams 19.1, 2.0 a game between them.
Caleb Williams finished QB5 that year and Drake Maye QB2.
Caleb Williams had 76 more pass attempts than Drake Maye, 568 to 492.
Drake Maye had 452 more passing yards than Caleb Williams, 4394 to 3942.
This season Drake Maye holds the bigger snap share, 98 percent against 97 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Caleb Williams is off in Week 10 and Drake Maye in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Caleb Williams has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Caleb Williams for Drake Maye?
Not on these numbers alone. Caleb Williams projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games) and Drake Maye 148 (18.5 a game over 8 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 9 the call starts Drake Maye over Caleb Williams.
Should I drop Drake Maye for Caleb Williams?
Not on these numbers alone. Drake Maye projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games) and Caleb Williams 148 (18.5 a game over 8 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 9 the call starts Drake Maye over Caleb Williams.
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