Should I start Tanner McKee or Michael Mayer in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 16.4 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Tanner McKee's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 48 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 48 dropbacks.

In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

Through Week 6, Michael Mayer has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 4.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 8 of 10 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 7 of 9 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.

He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Michael Mayer played 13 games and scored 73.8 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE38.

He caught 35 of 50 targets for 328 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 9.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Michael Mayer was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Michael Mayer scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 2.0 a game between them.

Tanner McKee finished QB55 and Michael Mayer TE38, which are two different ladders.

Tanner McKee is a quarterback and Michael Mayer a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Michael Mayer is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

What would change the answer

Tanner McKee has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.