Drake Maye or Mike Evans: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Drake Maye at 18.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.

The player markets price Mike Evans at 10.7 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Mike Evans: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Drake Maye has been on the field for 95 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 141 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 22 of 141 dropbacks and scrambled 14 times.

In Week 2 against PIT he completed 14 of 22 passes for 208 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 20 yards.

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.

Through Week 4, Mike Evans has been on the field for 57 percent of SF snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 13.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against ARI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 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 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Drake Maye was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Mike Evans 10.6, 10.6 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Mike Evans WR76, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Mike Evans a wide receiver, 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 Mike Evans in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Mike Evans is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.7 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.