Should I start Efton Chism or Patrick Mahomes in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 6:16 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Patrick Mahomes: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Efton Chism's 50 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR25 · NE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 4.6 pts a game
QB8 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 58
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The gap
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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 Efton Chism, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Efton Chism's market-based projection is 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 16.8 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is 70 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 6
Through Week 6, Efton Chism has been on the field for 43 percent of NE snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against LV he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 57 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 174 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 174 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 3 against MIA he completed 20 of 24 passes for 246 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 4 against LV he completed 15 of 30 passes for 225 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 6 against LAC he completed 23 of 30 passes for 272 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 19 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Efton Chism played 8 games and scored 16.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game.
He caught 3 of 3 targets for 75 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 25.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 14 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.
Patrick Mahomes was available for 6 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Efton Chism 2.1, 19.1 a game between them.
Efton Chism is a wide receiver and Patrick Mahomes a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Efton Chism.
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.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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