Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Chig Okonkwo in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Chig Okonkwo's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

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 6, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 65 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 6.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 2 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 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 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chig Okonkwo was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 13.9 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Chig Okonkwo TE21, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Chig Okonkwo a tight end, 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 Chig Okonkwo in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.2 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.