Should I start Kenneth Walker or Drake Maye in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenneth Walker, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 6; 2QB: ADP 17.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 6.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 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 12 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Kenneth Walker has been on the field for 75 percent of KC snaps, taken 76 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 58 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 13 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIA he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 3 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against LV he carried 22 times for 177 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against LAC he carried 19 times for 128 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 8, Drake Maye has been on the field for 98 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 275 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 275 dropbacks and scrambled 26 times.

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.

In Week 8 against MIA he completed 16 of 20 passes for 199 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 7 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Kenneth Walker in the last completed season.

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.

Side by side

Kenneth Walker 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

Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5 and Drake Maye in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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