Josh Allen or Drake Maye: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Josh Allen over Drake Maye
- Market projects
- 21.8
- fantasy pts
- LV D vs QB
- 21.8
- 5th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 20.1
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 96%
- Through Week 5
Drake Maye is not in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Drake Maye, 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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QB3 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 7-0
- Market price
- 21.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- ADP 1
QB4 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 60
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size187 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 has them
Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB3 in tier 2.
His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.
He appears in 16 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Josh Allen at 21.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 143 players the market prices.
The market has Drake Maye at 20.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 10 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Drake Maye's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 164 times and thrown 9.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 22 of 164 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.
In Week 3 against LAC he completed 16 of 26 passes for 204 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 7 times for 23 yards.
In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.
In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 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.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Drake Maye 21.2, 0.9 a game between them.
Josh Allen finished QB1 that year and Drake Maye QB2.
Drake Maye had 32 more pass attempts than Josh Allen, 492 to 460.
Drake Maye had 726 more passing yards than Josh Allen, 4394 to 3668.
This season Josh Allen holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 96 percent.
This season Josh Allen holds the bigger target share, 1 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Josh Allen is off in Week 7 and Drake Maye in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Drake Maye is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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