Patrick Mahomes or Jeremiyah Love: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Patrick Mahomes at 18.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 10th highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

The player markets price Jeremiyah Love at 10.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 87th highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 27.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jeremiyah Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 48.

This season through Week 2

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.

Through Week 2, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 42 percent of ARI snaps, taken 42 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 33 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.7 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against SEA he carried 9 times for 29 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 16 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.

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Jeremiyah Love 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 Jeremiyah Love in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.6 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.