Drake Maye or Carnell Tate: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Drake Maye at 18.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

The player markets price Carnell Tate at 11.0 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 81st highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Carnell Tate: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Drake Maye has been on the field for 95 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 141 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 22 of 141 dropbacks and scrambled 14 times.

In Week 2 against PIT he completed 14 of 22 passes for 208 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 20 yards.

In Week 3 against JAX he completed 14 of 25 passes for 199 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 4 times for 18 yards.

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.

Through Week 4, Carnell Tate has been on the field for 84 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 11.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against PHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 6 of 9 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 9 of 12 targets for 145 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.

Carnell Tate is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Carnell Tate a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Drake Maye is off in Week 11 and Carnell Tate in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Carnell Tate is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.