Michael Pittman Jr. or Drake Maye: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:46 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on either of them, 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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WR30 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rec yds line 5-12
- Market price
- 7.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 59
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
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 stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Pittman Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.
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
No season market is posted for Michael Pittman Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
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
The season feed carries no line for Michael Pittman Jr. 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
Michael Pittman Jr. is a wide receiver and Drake Maye a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9 and Drake Maye in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
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