Should I start Drake Maye or Patrick Mahomes in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 20.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Patrick Mahomes's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Drake Maye has been on the field for 96 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 318 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 47 of 318 dropbacks and scrambled 27 times.

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.

In Week 8 against MIA he completed 16 of 20 passes for 199 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 7 yards.

In Week 9 against GB he completed 21 of 38 passes for 299 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.

Through Week 9, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 99 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 289 times and thrown 5.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 289 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 7 against SEA he completed 19 of 33 passes for 165 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

In Week 8 against DEN he completed 30 of 41 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 6 yards.

In Week 9 against NYJ he completed 23 of 31 passes for 242 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

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 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.

Drake Maye was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 they scored the same 21.2 PPR points a game.

Drake Maye finished QB2 that year and Patrick Mahomes QB11.

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.

This season Patrick Mahomes holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 96 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Drake Maye is off in Week 11 and Patrick Mahomes in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Patrick Mahomes is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Patrick Mahomes has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.