Should I start Drake Maye or Xavier Worthy in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 18.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 16th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Xavier Worthy's market-based projection is 9.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake Maye, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Worthy, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Drake Maye has been on the field for 98 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 275 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 275 dropbacks and scrambled 26 times.

In Week 6 against NYJ he completed 18 of 32 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

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.

Through Week 8, Xavier Worthy has been on the field for 84 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 41 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 7 of 7 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 3 of 6 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 13 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 Xavier Worthy played 14 games and scored 109.9 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR59.

He caught 42 of 73 targets for 532 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.2 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 12.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Drake Maye was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Xavier Worthy 7.9, 13.3 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Xavier Worthy WR59, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback and Xavier Worthy a wide receiver, 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 Xavier Worthy in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.7 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.