Should I start Brevyn Spann-Ford or AJ Barner in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brevyn Spann-Ford, and the board ranks him 158th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brevyn Spann-Ford's market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 138th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for AJ Barner is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

AJ Barner's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Brevyn Spann-Ford has been on the field for 39 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 4 of 5 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, AJ Barner has been on the field for 88 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 3 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 3 times for 4 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brevyn Spann-Ford played 17 games and scored 24.0 PPR points, 1.4 a game, finishing TE73.

He caught 9 of 13 targets for 90 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.

He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Brevyn Spann-Ford 1.4, 7.3 a game between them.

Brevyn Spann-Ford finished TE73 that year and AJ Barner TE14.

AJ Barner had 55 more targets than Brevyn Spann-Ford, 68 to 13.

AJ Barner had 429 more receiving yards than Brevyn Spann-Ford, 519 to 90.

This season AJ Barner holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 39 percent.

This season AJ Barner holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

AJ Barner is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Brevyn Spann-Ford.

What would change the answer

AJ Barner has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.