Should I start Patrick Mahomes or DeMario Douglas in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 2:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Patrick Mahomes: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against DeMario Douglas's 51 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop DeMario Douglas for Patrick Mahomes?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Patrick Mahomes projects 174 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (17.4 a game over 10 games), DeMario Douglas 69 (7.7 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Patrick Mahomes

QB15 · KC · bye 5

2026 vs pass yds line 3-2

Market-based projection: 15.8 pts a game

DeMario Douglas

WR39 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection: 8.9 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 98

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 15.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for DeMario Douglas, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 54 percent of NE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 7 of 8 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.

He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DeMario Douglas was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 15.6 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and DeMario Douglas WR65, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and DeMario Douglas a wide receiver, 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 and DeMario Douglas in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

DeMario Douglas has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop DeMario Douglas for Patrick Mahomes?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Patrick Mahomes projects 174 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (17.4 a game over 10 games), DeMario Douglas 69 (7.7 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Patrick Mahomes for DeMario Douglas?
No. Keep Patrick Mahomes: he projects 174 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (17.4 a game over 10 games), DeMario Douglas 69 (7.7 a game over 9 games).