Should I start Drake Maye or Dak Prescott in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dak Prescott, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Dak Prescott is 1.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Dak Prescott's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Drake Maye has been on the field for 97 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.

Through Week 8, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 330 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 330 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 6 against GB he completed 34 of 54 passes for 258 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

In Week 7 against PHI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 212 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

In Week 8 against ARI he completed 19 of 29 passes for 195 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 21 yards.

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 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.

He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 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 Dak Prescott 19.0, 2.1 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 that year and Dak Prescott QB6.

Dak Prescott had 108 more pass attempts than Drake Maye, 600 to 492.

Dak Prescott had 158 more passing yards than Drake Maye, 4552 to 4394.

This season Dak Prescott holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 97 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Drake Maye is off in Week 11 and Dak Prescott in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Dak Prescott has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.