Start Patrick Mahomes or Bryce Young? Week 6
Start Patrick Mahomes over Bryce Young
- Market projects
- 17.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 16.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 96%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 6 call
Start Patrick Mahomes over Bryce Young in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Patrick Mahomes at 17.3 points and Bryce Young at 16.3, a gap of 1.0. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. 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-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 228 passing yards and 1-2 passing touchdowns, with a 18% chance to score a touchdown (13, 14 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 16.3 fantasy points for Bryce Young, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Bryce Young is 239 passing yards, 1-2 passing touchdowns and 11 rushing yards, with a 15% chance to score a touchdown (11, 13, 12 and 9 market sources).
That puts Patrick Mahomes 1.0 points ahead of Bryce Young on the market projections.
Injury status
Patrick Mahomes is not on the injury report.
Bryce Young 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 4, Bryce Young played 96 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 175 times and threw an average of 9.1 air yards per attempt.
Bryce Young, Week 1 against CHI: 61 of 68 snaps, 23 of 37 passes for 361 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, 2 carries for 10 yards.
Bryce Young, Week 2 against ATL: 62 of 66 snaps, 23 of 36 passes for 287 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 6 yards.
Bryce Young, Week 3 against CLE: 77 of 77 snaps, 26 of 47 passes for 291 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
Bryce Young, Week 4 against DET: 75 of 75 snaps, 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 7 yards.
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, Bryce Young played 16 games for CAR and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.
He completed 304 of 478 passes for 3011 yards, 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran 54 times for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB9 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 78
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
Ranked behind
QB17 · CAR · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 4-0
- Overall rank
- 100
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
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 board22
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 5
- Board size205 draftable players
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