Drake Maye or Ollie Gordon: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ollie Gordon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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 market has Ollie Gordon at 10.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ollie Gordon's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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, Ollie Gordon has been on the field for 43 percent of MIA snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 3 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Ollie Gordon played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 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 Ollie Gordon 3.2, 18.0 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Ollie Gordon RB68, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Ollie Gordon a running back, 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. No bye is listed for Ollie Gordon.

What would change the answer

Ollie Gordon is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.