Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Tanner McKee in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 5:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Patrick Mahomes and Tanner McKee are too close to call on usage: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets against 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games. 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
QB12 · PHI · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 87
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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 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 87th 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 12 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Tanner McKee is 16.3 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.
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, 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.
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.
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 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.
Patrick Mahomes was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 17.5 a game between them.
Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 that year and Tanner McKee QB55.
Patrick Mahomes had 459 more pass attempts than Tanner McKee, 502 to 43.
Patrick Mahomes had 3313 more passing yards than Tanner McKee, 3587 to 274.
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5. 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.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
- Is Patrick Mahomes playing Week 7?
- Is Tanner McKee playing Week 7?
- Chiefs depth chart
- Eagles depth chart
- Week 7 QB rankings
- Week 7 fantasy rankings
- Week 7 start or sit
- Week 7 waiver wire
- Week 7 trade value chart
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 7
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 7 kicker rankings
- Week 7 defense rankings
