Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Tre Tucker in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Patrick Mahomes's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 19th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Tre Tucker's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 110th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tre Tucker, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Tre Tucker has been on the field for 67 percent of LV snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 84 third down targets, had 0 of its 27 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 56 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 5 of 12 targets for 103 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against SF he caught 4 of 8 targets for 55 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 Tre Tucker played 17 games and scored 161.7 PPR points, 9.5 a game, finishing WR38.

He caught 57 of 92 targets for 696 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tre Tucker was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Tre Tucker 9.5, 11.7 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Tre Tucker WR38, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Tre Tucker a wide receiver, 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 Tre Tucker in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Patrick Mahomes is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

10.5 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.