Should I start Jared Goff or Patrick Mahomes in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 8th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jared Goff's market-based projection is 17.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 7th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 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 9

Through Week 9, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 298 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 298 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 7 against GB he completed 22 of 32 passes for 303 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

In Week 8 against MIN he completed 18 of 25 passes for 176 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 9 against MIA he completed 17 of 25 passes for 170 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.

He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 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.

Jared Goff was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Jared Goff 17.9, 3.2 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 that year and Patrick Mahomes QB11.

Jared Goff had 76 more pass attempts than Patrick Mahomes, 578 to 502.

Jared Goff had 977 more passing yards than Patrick Mahomes, 4564 to 3587.

Their snap share this season is the same, 99 percent each.

Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.

Byes and availability

Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Patrick Mahomes in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Patrick Mahomes is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.