Patrick Mahomes or Fernando Mendoza: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB36 · KC · on bye this week
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Market price
- 16.1 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 238
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
QB37 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 253
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size258 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 238th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Fernando Mendoza: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 253rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Patrick Mahomes, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Fernando Mendoza, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 142 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 2 against IND he completed 32 of 47 passes for 382 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Fernando Mendoza this season.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Byes and availability
Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
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