Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Josh Jacobs in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 1:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Patrick Mahomes: he has been on the field this season, 100 percent of the snaps, and Josh Jacobs has no snap on record yet. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB11 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 16.4 pts a game
RB23 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 8-7
- Overall rank
- 74
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Josh Jacobs's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 174 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 174 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 3 against MIA he completed 20 of 24 passes for 246 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 4 against LV he completed 15 of 30 passes for 225 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 6 against LAC he completed 23 of 30 passes for 272 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 19 yards.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.
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 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.
He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.
That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Jacobs was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Josh Jacobs 15.8, 5.4 a game between them.
Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Josh Jacobs RB13, which are two different ladders.
Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Josh Jacobs 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 Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Josh Jacobs has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
- Is Patrick Mahomes playing Week 7?
- Is Josh Jacobs playing Week 7?
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- Week 7 fantasy rankings
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- Fantasy football rankings
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