Should I start Drake Maye or Woody Marks in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 18, 3:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Drake Maye: 94 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Woody Marks's 57 percent of the snaps and 40 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Drake Maye

QB5 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 2-3

Market-based projection: 19.2 pts a game
Draft pick: no draft data

Woody Marks

RB17 · HOU · bye 8

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Market-based projection: 12.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 47
Draft pick: no draft data
Tier: 7

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 19.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Woody Marks, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

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.

Through Week 5, Woody Marks has been on the field for 53 percent of HOU snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 15 times for 62 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 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 Woody Marks played 16 games and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.

He carried 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 more yards.

That came to 12.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Drake Maye was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 11.7 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Woody Marks RB29, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Woody Marks 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 and Woody Marks in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Woody Marks has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

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