Start Patrick Mahomes or Bo Nix? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Patrick Mahomes over Bo Nix
- Market projects
- 17.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 15.1
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Patrick Mahomes over Bo Nix in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Patrick Mahomes at 17.3 points and Bo Nix at 15.1, a gap of 2.2. Patrick Mahomes'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.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 17.3 fantasy points for Patrick Mahomes, with 80 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Patrick Mahomes at 227.5 passing yards and 1.5 passing touchdowns, with a 18% chance to score a touchdown (8, 10 and 10 market sources).
Player markets imply 15.1 fantasy points for Bo Nix, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Bo Nix at 204.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 13.5 rushing yards, with a 18% chance to score a touchdown (12, 14, 13 and 13 market sources).
That puts Patrick Mahomes 2.2 points ahead of Bo Nix on the market projections.
Injury status
Patrick Mahomes is not on the injury report.
Bo Nix is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 4, Patrick Mahomes played 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and threw an average of 7.0 air yards per attempt.
Patrick Mahomes, Week 1 against DEN: 69 of 69 snaps, 15 of 27 passes for 184 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 4 carries for 27 yards.
Patrick Mahomes, Week 2 against IND: 80 of 80 snaps, 32 of 47 passes for 382 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 2 carries for 17 yards.
Patrick Mahomes, Week 3 against MIA: 52 of 52 snaps, 20 of 24 passes for 246 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 1 yards.
Patrick Mahomes, Week 4 against LV: 60 of 60 snaps, 15 of 30 passes for 225 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 1 yards.
Through Week 5, Bo Nix played 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 172 times and threw an average of 5.2 air yards per attempt.
Bo Nix, Week 2 against JAX: 62 of 62 snaps, 22 of 31 passes for 288 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 2 carries for 9 yards.
Bo Nix, Week 3 against LAR: 67 of 67 snaps, 17 of 34 passes for 186 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 4 carries for 7 yards.
Bo Nix, Week 4 against SF: 65 of 65 snaps, 25 of 42 passes for 214 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 2 carries for 10 yards.
Bo Nix, Week 5 against LAC: 62 of 62 snaps, 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 4 carries for 10 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Patrick Mahomes played 14 games for KC and scored 296.7 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB11.
He completed 315 of 502 passes for 3587 yards, 22 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran 64 times for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
In 2025, Bo Nix played 17 games for DEN and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.
He completed 388 of 612 passes for 3931 yards, 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran 83 times for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 100 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB6 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 37
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
Ranked behind
QB10 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 53
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board16
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 3 and tier 4
- Board size169 draftable players
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