Should I start D'Andre Swift or Drake Maye in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on D'Andre Swift, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 5.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

D'Andre Swift's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 19 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 16 times for 44 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 26 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against NE he carried 22 times for 78 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he carried 27 times for 69 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

Through Week 8, Drake Maye has been on the field for 98 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Drake Maye was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and D'Andre Swift 14.3, 6.9 a game between them.

D'Andre Swift finished RB15 and Drake Maye QB2, which are two different ladders.

D'Andre Swift is a running back and Drake Maye a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10 and Drake Maye in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.