Should I start Jeremy McNichols or Drake Maye in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 6.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Jeremy McNichols's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 18 percent of WAS snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Drake Maye has been on the field for 97 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 249 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 249 dropbacks and scrambled 23 times.

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.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.

He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.

That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 16.9 a game between them.

Jeremy McNichols finished RB58 and Drake Maye QB2, which are two different ladders.

Jeremy McNichols is a running back and Drake Maye a quarterback, 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. No bye is listed for Jeremy McNichols.

What would change the answer

Jeremy McNichols has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.