Drake Maye or Jared Goff: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 1:31 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Jared Goff, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB9 · NE · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 11-6
- Books price
- 17.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB18 · DET · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Overall rank
- 99
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 7.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jared Goff: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Drake Maye at 17.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 15th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The books have Jared Goff at 16.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 17 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Jared Goff's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Drake Maye has been on the field for 100 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 69 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 12 of 69 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 1 against SEA he completed 23 of 33 passes for 178 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions and ran 7 times for 47 yards.
In Week 2 against PIT he completed 14 of 22 passes for 208 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 20 yards.
Through Week 2, Jared Goff has been on the field for 100 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 85 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 85 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 1 against NO he completed 26 of 39 passes for 206 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 2 against BUF he completed 26 of 38 passes for 327 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 7 yards.
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 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.
He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Jared Goff 17.9, 3.2 a game between them.
Drake Maye finished QB2 that year and Jared Goff QB9.
Jared Goff had 86 more pass attempts than Drake Maye, 578 to 492.
Jared Goff had 170 more passing yards than Drake Maye, 4564 to 4394.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Drake Maye is off in Week 11 and Jared Goff in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jared Goff is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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