Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Isaac TeSlaa in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 17.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 16th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 99 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 289 times and thrown 5.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 289 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 7 against SEA he completed 19 of 33 passes for 165 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

In Week 8 against DEN he completed 30 of 41 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 6 yards.

In Week 9 against NYJ he completed 23 of 31 passes for 242 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 9, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 56 percent of DET snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.

In Week 7 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIN he was not given the ball.

In Week 9 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

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 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Isaac TeSlaa was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 16.7 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Isaac TeSlaa WR82, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Isaac TeSlaa a wide receiver, 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 Isaac TeSlaa in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Patrick Mahomes is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

12.4 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.