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Patrick Mahomes or KC Concepcion Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?

Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM ET

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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QB36 · KC · on bye this week

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Market price
16.1 pts a game Wk 4 price
Overall rank
199
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
13

WR77 · CLE · bye 11

Overall rank
200
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
19

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The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size219 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 market price and nothing else.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 199th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on KC Concepcion Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for Patrick Mahomes, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for KC Concepcion Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 142 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 4, KC Concepcion Jr. has been on the field for 79 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against TB he carried 1 time for -6 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CAR he caught 2 of 9 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he caught 5 of 8 targets for 64 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.

KC Concepcion Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and KC Concepcion Jr. a wide receiver, 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 KC Concepcion Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

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