Patrick Mahomes or Rhamondre Stevenson: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Patrick Mahomes at 18.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 10th highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

The player markets price Rhamondre Stevenson at 10.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 88th highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 27.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rhamondre Stevenson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 82.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 84 times and thrown 5.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 84 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 1 against DEN he completed 15 of 27 passes for 184 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 27 yards.

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.

Through Week 2, Rhamondre Stevenson has been on the field for 63 percent of NE snaps, taken 42 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against SEA he carried 18 times for 51 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against PIT he carried 6 times for 43 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 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.

In 2025 Rhamondre Stevenson played 14 games and scored 178.8 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing RB25.

He carried 130 times for 603 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 32 of 37 targets for 345 more yards.

That came to 9.3 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 14 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Rhamondre Stevenson 12.8, 8.4 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Rhamondre Stevenson RB25, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

7.7 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.