Patrick Mahomes or Dalton Schultz: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 17.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Dalton Schultz's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

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

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, 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 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 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 10 yards a catch.

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

Dalton Schultz was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

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

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes 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

Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Dalton Schultz.

What would change the answer

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