Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Jordan Love 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.

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 16.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 19th 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 Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

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, Jordan Love has been on the field for 98 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 360 times and thrown 9.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 56 of 360 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.

In Week 7 against DET he completed 27 of 45 passes for 274 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 8 against CAR he completed 30 of 41 passes for 288 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 9 against NE he completed 23 of 29 passes for 372 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 13 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.

This season Patrick Mahomes holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 98 percent.

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.

Patrick Mahomes is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.4 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.