Should I start Patrick Mahomes or George Holani in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:11 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 George Holani's 47 percent of the snaps and 19 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.

Should I drop George Holani for Patrick Mahomes?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Patrick Mahomes projects 195 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.7 a game over 11 games), George Holani 59 (5.9 a game over 10 games).

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Patrick Mahomes

QB8 · KC · bye 5

2026 vs pass yds line 3-2

Overall rank: 58

George Holani

RB19 · SEA · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 2-4

Market-based projection: 5.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 60

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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 Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Holani, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

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

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, George Holani has been on the field for 41 percent of SEA snaps, taken 19 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 4 times for 7 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 5 times for 20 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

In 2025 George Holani played 11 games and scored 20.8 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing RB93.

He carried 22 times for 73 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 2.0 carries a game at 3.3 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Patrick Mahomes was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and George Holani 1.9, 19.3 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and George Holani RB93, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and George Holani a running back, 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 and George Holani in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop George Holani for Patrick Mahomes?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Patrick Mahomes projects 195 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.7 a game over 11 games), George Holani 59 (5.9 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Patrick Mahomes for George Holani?
No. Keep Patrick Mahomes: he projects 195 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.7 a game over 11 games), George Holani 59 (5.9 a game over 10 games).