Start Drake Maye or Caleb Williams? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Drake Maye over Caleb Williams
- Market projects
- 19.1
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 96%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 17.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 93%
- Through Week 2
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Our Week 6 call
Start Drake Maye over Caleb Williams in Week 6.
Caleb Williams is listed out on the injury report, so this is not a close call: start Drake Maye.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 17.6 fantasy points for Caleb Williams, with 80 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Caleb Williams at 219.5 passing yards and 1.5 passing touchdowns, with a 22% chance to score a touchdown (9, 10 and 11 market sources).
Player markets imply 19.1 fantasy points for Drake Maye, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Drake Maye at 232.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 27.5 rushing yards, with a 20% chance to score a touchdown (9, 10, 9 and 8 market sources).
That puts Drake Maye 1.5 points ahead of Caleb Williams on the market projections.
Injury status
Caleb Williams is listed as out with a hamstring injury.
Drake Maye is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 2, Caleb Williams played 93 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and threw an average of 7.9 air yards per attempt.
Caleb Williams, Week 1 against CAR: 75 of 75 snaps, 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 10 carries for 65 yards.
Caleb Williams, Week 2 against MIN: 64 of 74 snaps, 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 5 carries for 42 yards.
Through Week 5, Drake Maye played 96 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 179 times and threw an average of 9.2 air yards per attempt.
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.
Drake Maye, Week 5 against LV: 75 of 75 snaps, 26 of 34 passes for 374 yards, 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 4 carries for 29 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Caleb Williams played 17 games for CHI and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.
He completed 330 of 568 passes for 3942 yards, 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran 77 times for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Caleb Williams, Week 18 of 2025 against DET: 20 of 33 passes for 212 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 1 yards, 17.6 PPR points.
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 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB4 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 66
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
Ranked behind
QB9 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Overall rank
- 83
- 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 board17
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 3 and tier 4
- Board size187 draftable players
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