Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Theo Johnson in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 11:21 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Patrick Mahomes: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Theo Johnson's 35 percent of the snaps and 4 percent of the targets. 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.
QB20 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 21.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 145
TE28 · NYG · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 1.7 pts a game
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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 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Theo Johnson, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Theo Johnson's market-based projection is 1.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 134th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.
Patrick Mahomes's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 99 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 289 times and thrown 5.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 289 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.
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.
In Week 8 against DEN he completed 30 of 41 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 6 yards.
In Week 9 against NYJ he completed 23 of 31 passes for 242 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.
Through Week 9, Theo Johnson has been on the field for 33 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 10.8 air yards.
In Week 4 against ARI he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against PHI he was not given the ball.
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 Theo Johnson played 15 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing TE18.
He caught 45 of 74 targets for 528 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 4.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Theo Johnson was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Theo Johnson 8.5, 12.7 a game between them.
Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Theo Johnson TE18, which are two different ladders.
Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Theo Johnson 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 Theo Johnson.
Patrick Mahomes is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Patrick Mahomes has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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