Should I start Patrick Mahomes or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

MarShawn Lloyd's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 210 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 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 210 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 210 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 7, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 38 percent of GB snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 8 times for 10 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 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.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Side by side

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and MarShawn Lloyd 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 MarShawn Lloyd in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

11.0 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.