Should I start Drake Maye or Emeka Egbuka in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:11 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Drake Maye: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Emeka Egbuka's 89 percent of the snaps and 32 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 Emeka Egbuka for Drake Maye?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games), Emeka Egbuka 72 (9.0 a game over 8 games). Emeka Egbuka is listed out.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
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- Market-based projection
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- Market-based projection
- 11.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 29
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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 Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Emeka Egbuka, and the board ranks him 29th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Emeka Egbuka, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Drake Maye has been on the field for 97 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.
Through Week 6, Emeka Egbuka has been on the field for 86 percent of TB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 19 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 3 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 49 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.
In Week 4 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DAL he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against PIT he caught 7 of 16 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Emeka Egbuka played 17 games and scored 195.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR23.
He caught 63 of 127 targets for 938 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Emeka Egbuka 11.5, 9.7 a game between them.
Drake Maye finished QB2 and Emeka Egbuka WR23, which are two different ladders.
Drake Maye is a quarterback and Emeka Egbuka a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Drake Maye is off in Week 11 and Emeka Egbuka in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Emeka Egbuka is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Emeka Egbuka 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 Emeka Egbuka for Drake Maye?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games), Emeka Egbuka 72 (9.0 a game over 8 games). Emeka Egbuka is listed out.
Should I drop Drake Maye for Emeka Egbuka?
No. Keep Drake Maye: he projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games), Emeka Egbuka 72 (9.0 a game over 8 games). Emeka Egbuka is listed out.
Both players in full
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