Should I start Patrick Mahomes or Trey McBride in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Patrick Mahomes, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trey McBride, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.

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 13th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Trey McBride is 3.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Trey McBride'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, Trey McBride has been on the field for 91 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 4 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 65 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he caught 7 of 12 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 9 of 10 targets for 66 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 7 of 9 targets for 53 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 Trey McBride played 17 games and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.

He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets.

That came to 9.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Trey McBride was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Trey McBride 18.6, 2.6 a game between them.

Patrick Mahomes finished QB11 and Trey McBride TE1, which are two different ladders.

Patrick Mahomes is a quarterback and Trey McBride 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 and Trey McBride in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Trey McBride has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.