Travis Etienne Jr. or Patrick Mahomes: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 8, 2026 at 12:56 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, 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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RB55 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 200
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 15
QB36 · KC · on bye this week
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Market price
- 16.1 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 202
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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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 market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Etienne Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 202nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Patrick Mahomes, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 142 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
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.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Travis Etienne Jr. in the last completed season.
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.
Side by side
Travis Etienne Jr. is a running back and Patrick Mahomes a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Travis Etienne Jr. is off in Week 8 and Patrick Mahomes in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
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