Patrick Mahomes or Jordan Love: who to draft first
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 19, 2026 at 10:21 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Patrick Mahomes 0.6 points a game ahead of Jordan Love 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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QB10 · KC · bye 5
2025 vs pass yds line 6-8
- Books price
- 17.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB12 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 6-9
- Books price
- 16.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.6 points a game
- Board size242 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 Patrick Mahomes at 17.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 18th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
The player markets price Jordan Love at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 182 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 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 27.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 60.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 33 times and thrown 4.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 5 of 33 dropbacks and scrambled 4 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.
Through Week 1, Jordan Love has been on the field for 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 46 times and thrown 11.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 46 dropbacks.
In Week 1 against MIN he completed 21 of 42 passes for 387 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
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 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.
He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jordan Love was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Jordan Love 16.1, 5.1 a game between them.
Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 that year and Jordan Love QB15.
Patrick Mahomes had 63 more pass attempts than Jordan Love, 502 to 439.
Patrick Mahomes had 206 more passing yards than Jordan Love, 3587 to 3381.
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
Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5 and Jordan Love in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.6 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.
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