Jalen Hurts or Patrick Mahomes: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 24, 2026 at 10:36 PM ET
The sportsbooks price Jalen Hurts 0.9 points a game ahead of Patrick Mahomes this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the books' price is the live market on these two.
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QB4 · PHI · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 7-9
- Books price
- 19.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB6 · KC · bye 5
2025 vs pass yds line 6-8
- Books price
- 18.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.9 points a game
- Board size230 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Jalen Hurts at 19.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 8th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The player markets price Patrick Mahomes at 18.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 10th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 27.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 1 against WAS he completed 14 of 25 passes for 203 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 48 yards.
In Week 2 against TEN he completed 26 of 37 passes for 264 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 5 times for 16 yards.
Through Week 2, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 84 times and thrown 5.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 84 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 1 against DEN he completed 15 of 27 passes for 184 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 27 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 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.
Jalen Hurts was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Jalen Hurts 19.1, 2.1 a game between them.
Jalen Hurts finished QB8 that year and Patrick Mahomes QB11.
Patrick Mahomes had 48 more pass attempts than Jalen Hurts, 502 to 454.
Patrick Mahomes had 363 more passing yards than Jalen Hurts, 3587 to 3224.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10 and Patrick Mahomes in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.9 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.
The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.
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