Should I start Drake Maye or Colston Loveland in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 19.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 11.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Drake Maye has been on the field for 97 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.

Through Week 6, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 65 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Drake Maye was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 10.9 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Colston Loveland TE12, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Colston Loveland a tight end, 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 Colston Loveland in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.3 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.