Should I start Davante Adams or Patrick Mahomes in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Davante Adams, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Davante Adams is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 15.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 4 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 51 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 174 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 174 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

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.

In Week 6 against LAC he completed 23 of 30 passes for 272 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 19 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Davante Adams played 14 games and scored 222.9 PPR points, 15.9 a game, finishing WR9.

He caught 60 of 114 targets for 789 yards and 14 touchdowns, with 31 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 14 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Davante Adams 15.9, 5.3 a game between them.

Davante Adams finished WR9 and Patrick Mahomes QB11, which are two different ladders.

Davante Adams is a wide receiver and Patrick Mahomes a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Davante Adams is off in Week 11 and Patrick Mahomes in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Davante Adams is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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