Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Dohnte Meyers in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 17th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Dohnte Meyers's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 99 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 289 times and thrown 5.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 289 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 7 against SEA he completed 19 of 33 passes for 165 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

In Week 8 against DEN he completed 30 of 41 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 6 yards.

In Week 9 against NYJ he completed 23 of 31 passes for 242 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 9, Dohnte Meyers has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against ATL he carried 1 time for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 47 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.

Dohnte Meyers is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Dohnte Meyers 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. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.

Patrick Mahomes is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

11.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.