Should I start Drake Maye or Jalen Coker in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 7:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Drake Maye: 94 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jalen Coker's 64 percent of the snaps and 20 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 Jalen Coker for Drake Maye?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 181 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 10 games), Jalen Coker 135 (12.3 a game over 11 games).

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Drake Maye

QB5 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 2-4

Market-based projection: 19.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 48

Jalen Coker

WR20 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs anytime td line 1-3

Market-based projection: 12.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 49

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The gap

Board size332 draftable players

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 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Coker, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

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

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Drake Maye has been on the field for 96 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 214 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 214 dropbacks and scrambled 20 times.

In Week 4 against BUF he completed 22 of 37 passes for 269 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 56 yards.

In Week 5 against LV he completed 26 of 34 passes for 374 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 29 yards.

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.

Through Week 6, Jalen Coker has been on the field for 64 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against ATL he caught 8 of 9 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 6 of 13 targets for 97 yards and did not score.

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 Jalen Coker played 11 games and scored 90.4 PPR points, 8.2 a game, finishing WR69.

He caught 33 of 43 targets for 394 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 3.9 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Drake Maye was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Jalen Coker 8.2, 13.0 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Jalen Coker WR69, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Jalen Coker 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 Jalen Coker in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jalen Coker for Drake Maye?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 181 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 10 games), Jalen Coker 135 (12.3 a game over 11 games).
Should I drop Drake Maye for Jalen Coker?
No. Keep Drake Maye: he projects 181 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 10 games), Jalen Coker 135 (12.3 a game over 11 games).