Patrick Mahomes or Drake Maye: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Patrick Mahomes 0.6 points a game ahead of Drake Maye this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the books' price is the live market on these two.
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QB6 · KC · bye 5
2025 vs pass yds line 6-8
- Books price
- 18.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB9 · NE · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 11-6
- Books price
- 17.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.6 points a game
- Board size230 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Patrick Mahomes at 18.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 11th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The player markets price Drake Maye at 17.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 15th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 27.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 7.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 84 times and thrown 5.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 84 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 1 against DEN he completed 15 of 27 passes for 184 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 27 yards.
In Week 2 against IND he completed 32 of 47 passes for 382 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
Through Week 2, Drake Maye has been on the field for 100 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 69 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 12 of 69 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 1 against SEA he completed 23 of 33 passes for 178 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions and ran 7 times for 47 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes played 14 games and scored 296.7 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB11.
He threw for 3587 yards on 502 attempts with 22 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns.
That came to 35.9 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Drake Maye was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 they scored the same 21.2 PPR points a game.
Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 that year and Drake Maye QB2.
Patrick Mahomes had 10 more pass attempts than Drake Maye, 502 to 492.
Drake Maye had 807 more passing yards than Patrick Mahomes, 4394 to 3587.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5 and Drake Maye in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.6 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 books when it does.
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