Should I start Darnell Washington or AJ Barner in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for AJ Barner is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 so far

Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, AJ Barner has been on the field for 87 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 78 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.

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

In Week 8 against CHI he caught 2 of 5 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against ARI he carried 3 times for 3 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 7 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 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.

AJ Barner was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 4.1 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 that year and AJ Barner TE14.

AJ Barner had 25 more targets than Darnell Washington, 68 to 43.

AJ Barner had 155 more receiving yards than Darnell Washington, 519 to 364.

This season AJ Barner holds the bigger snap share, 87 percent against 65 percent.

This season AJ Barner holds the bigger target share, 14 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and AJ Barner in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.