Drake Maye or Dalton Schultz: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Drake Maye at 20.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 8 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Dalton Schultz at 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 132 players the market prices.

Drake Maye's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Drake Maye has been on the field for 96 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 5, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 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.

In 2025 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.

He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 9.5 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Dalton Schultz 10.5, 10.7 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Dalton Schultz 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. No bye is listed for Dalton Schultz.

What would change the answer

Drake Maye is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.