Start Josh Allen or Drake Maye? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Josh Allen over Drake Maye
- Market projects
- 21.8
- fantasy pts
- LV D vs QB
- 21.8
- 5th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 19.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 96%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Josh Allen over Drake Maye in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Josh Allen at 21.8 points and Drake Maye at 19.2, a gap of 2.7.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 21.8 fantasy points for Josh Allen, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Josh Allen at 232.5 passing yards and 33.5 rushing yards, with a 61% chance to score a touchdown (9, 8 and 7 market sources).
Player markets imply 19.2 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 21% chance to score a touchdown (9, 10, 9 and 8 market sources).
That puts Josh Allen 2.7 points ahead of Drake Maye on the market projections.
Week 6 matchups
Josh Allen and BUF visit LV on Sunday at 4:25 PM ET.
LV allowed 21.8 fantasy points a game to QBs this season over 5 games, the 5th most in the league.
Quarterbacks threw for 253 yards and 2.2 touchdowns a game against LV, with 0.8 interceptions.
Injury status
Josh Allen is not on the injury report.
Drake Maye is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Josh Allen played 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 164 times and threw an average of 9.5 air yards per attempt.
Josh Allen, Week 2 against DET: 74 of 74 snaps, 20 of 31 passes for 248 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 11 carries for 72 yards.
Josh Allen, Week 3 against LAC: 66 of 66 snaps, 16 of 26 passes for 204 yards, 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, 7 carries for 23 yards.
Josh Allen, Week 4 against NE: 59 of 59 snaps, 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 5 carries for 4 yards.
Josh Allen, Week 5 against LAR: 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 10 carries for 121 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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Josh Allen played 17 games for BUF and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He completed 319 of 460 passes for 3668 yards, 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran 112 times for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 98 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 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB3 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 7-0
- Overall rank
- 48
- Draft pick
- ADP 1
- Tier
- 2
Ranked behind
QB4 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 66
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
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 board18
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 2 and tier 3
- Board size187 draftable players
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