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Should I start Drake Maye or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 11:06 PM ET.

Start Drake Maye: his market-based projection is 12.8 points a game ahead of MarShawn Lloyd's this season.

Should I drop MarShawn Lloyd for Drake Maye?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 163 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 9 games), MarShawn Lloyd 57 (6.3 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

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Market-based projection
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Market-based projection
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The gap

  • Price difference12.8 points a game
  • Board size294 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 the market projection.

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 7th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

MarShawn Lloyd's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 69th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

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, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 38 percent of GB snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 8 times for 10 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 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.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Side by side

Drake Maye is a quarterback and MarShawn Lloyd a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

12.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop MarShawn Lloyd for Drake Maye?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Drake Maye projects 163 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 9 games), MarShawn Lloyd 57 (6.3 a game over 9 games).

  • Should I drop Drake Maye for MarShawn Lloyd?

    No. Keep Drake Maye: he projects 163 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.1 a game over 9 games), MarShawn Lloyd 57 (6.3 a game over 9 games).

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