Should I start Drake Maye or Mark Andrews in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 5:11 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Drake Maye: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Mark Andrews's 67 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Mark Andrews for Drake Maye?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Mark Andrews 83 (9.2 a game over 9 games).

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Drake Maye

QB13 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 3-4

Market-based projection: 19.3 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 95

Mark Andrews

TE17 · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Market-based projection: 8.3 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 96

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The gap

Board size293 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Drake Maye is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Mark Andrews is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

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.

Through Week 7, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 65 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 2 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 7.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 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 Mark Andrews played 17 games and scored 131.0 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing TE16.

He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 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 Mark Andrews 7.7, 13.5 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Mark Andrews a tight end, 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 Mark Andrews in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Mark Andrews for Drake Maye?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Mark Andrews 83 (9.2 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Drake Maye for Mark Andrews?
No. Keep Drake Maye: he projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Mark Andrews 83 (9.2 a game over 9 games).

Should I drop Mark Andrews?