Should I start Adonai Mitchell or Gunnar Helm in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Adonai Mitchell's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 127th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 67 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against GB he caught 6 of 12 targets for 63 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 78 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he was not given the ball.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell played 16 games and scored 87.9 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR73.

He caught 33 of 74 targets for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Gunnar Helm scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Adonai Mitchell 5.5, 0.2 a game between them.

Adonai Mitchell finished WR73 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

Adonai Mitchell is a wide receiver and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Adonai Mitchell is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.