Patrick Mahomes or Terrance Ferguson: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 26, 2026 at 4:56 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Terrance Ferguson, 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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QB6 · KC · bye 5
2025 vs pass yds line 6-8
- Books price
- 18.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · LAR · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 3-11
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 sportsbooks' 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 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 27.
Our board does not carry Terrance Ferguson at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
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 170 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Terrance Ferguson, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Terrance Ferguson has been on the field for 54 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have averaged 7.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NYG he caught 6 of 9 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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 Terrance Ferguson played 14 games and scored 52.1 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE52.
He caught 11 of 25 targets for 231 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.
That came to 1.8 targets a game, a 44 percent catch rate and 21.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 39 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 Terrance Ferguson 3.7, 17.5 a game between them.
Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Terrance Ferguson TE52, which are two different ladders.
Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Terrance Ferguson a tight end, 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. No bye is listed for Terrance Ferguson.
What would change the answer
Terrance Ferguson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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