Rachaad White or Drake Maye: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rachaad White: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Drake Maye: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Rachaad White is 6.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 19.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 145 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Rachaad White has been on the field for 49 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he carried 7 times for 43 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against SEA he carried 8 times for 35 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYG he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rachaad White played 17 games and scored 143.0 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB32.

He carried 132 times for 572 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 218 more yards.

That came to 7.8 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Rachaad White 8.4, 12.8 a game between them.

Rachaad White finished RB32 and Drake Maye QB2, which are two different ladders.

Rachaad White is a running back and Drake Maye a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rachaad White is off in Week 7 and Drake Maye in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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