Should I start Drake Maye or Jaylen Waddle in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Jaylen Waddle, 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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QB4 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 19.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR24 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 10.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 56
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 15
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 41.
The market-based projections
Drake Maye's market-based projection is 19.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jaylen Waddle, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Drake Maye has been on the field for 96 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.
In Week 3 against JAX he completed 14 of 25 passes for 199 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 4 times for 18 yards.
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.
Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 7 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 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 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.
He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Drake Maye was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 9.0 a game between them.
Drake Maye finished QB2 and Jaylen Waddle WR24, which are two different ladders.
Drake Maye is a quarterback and Jaylen Waddle 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 Jaylen Waddle in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jaylen Waddle is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jaylen Waddle has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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