Start Drake Maye or Aaron Rodgers? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Drake Maye over Aaron Rodgers
- Market projects
- 18.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 95%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 16.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 99%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Drake Maye over Aaron Rodgers in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Drake Maye at 18.3 points and Aaron Rodgers at 16.3, a gap of 2.0. Aaron Rodgers's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 16.3 fantasy points for Aaron Rodgers, with 80 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Aaron Rodgers at 224.5 passing yards and 1.5 passing touchdowns, with a 9% chance to score a touchdown (16, 17 and 15 market sources).
Player markets imply 18.3 fantasy points for Drake Maye, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Drake Maye at 227.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 30.5 rushing yards, with a 20% chance to score a touchdown (14, 17, 3 and 15 market sources).
That puts Drake Maye 2.0 points ahead of Aaron Rodgers on the market projections.
Injury status
Aaron Rodgers is not on the injury report.
Drake Maye is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Aaron Rodgers played 99 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 167 times and threw an average of 9.4 air yards per attempt.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 1 against ATL: 67 of 67 snaps, 24 of 40 passes for 221 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 2 against NE: 67 of 70 snaps, 23 of 39 passes for 187 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 5 yards.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 3 against CIN: 62 of 62 snaps, 19 of 33 passes for 292 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 12 yards.
Aaron Rodgers, Week 4 against CLE: 72 of 72 snaps, 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards, 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
Through Week 4, Drake Maye played 95 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 141 times and threw an average of 9.1 air yards per attempt.
Drake Maye, Week 1 against SEA: 71 of 71 snaps, 23 of 33 passes for 178 yards, 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions, 7 carries for 47 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 2 against PIT: 55 of 55 snaps, 14 of 22 passes for 208 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 2 carries for 20 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 3 against JAX: 51 of 63 snaps, 14 of 25 passes for 199 yards, 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 4 carries for 18 yards.
Drake Maye, Week 4 against BUF: 76 of 76 snaps, 22 of 37 passes for 269 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 6 carries for 56 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Aaron Rodgers played 16 games for PIT and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.
He completed 327 of 498 passes for 3322 yards, 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran 21 times for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
In 2025, Drake Maye played 17 games for NE and scored 360.0 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB2.
He completed 354 of 492 passes for 4394 yards, 31 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran 103 times for 450 yards and 4 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB5 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 59
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
Ranked behind
QB15 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 94
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board35
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 5 and tier 6
- Board size222 draftable players
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