Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Colston Loveland in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 9.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

This season so far

Through Week 4, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 142 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 2 against IND he completed 32 of 47 passes for 382 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 17 yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he completed 20 of 24 passes for 246 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

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.

Through Week 5, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 85 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

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.

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 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.

Colston Loveland was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

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

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Colston Loveland TE12, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes 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

Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5 and Colston Loveland in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.4 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.