Should I start AJ Barner or Jonathan Taylor in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jonathan Taylor, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 4.

The market-based projections

AJ Barner's market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jonathan Taylor is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

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.

Through Week 9, Jonathan Taylor has been on the field for 77 percent of IND snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 48 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 15 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against MIN he carried 18 times for 95 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against JAX he carried 8 times for 23 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against DAL he carried 13 times for 46 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jonathan Taylor played 17 games and scored 362.3 PPR points, 21.3 a game, finishing RB4.

He carried 323 times for 1585 yards and 18 touchdowns, and caught 46 of 55 targets for 378 more yards.

That came to 19.0 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jonathan Taylor scored 21.3 PPR points a game and AJ Barner 8.7, 12.6 a game between them.

AJ Barner finished TE14 and Jonathan Taylor RB4, which are two different ladders.

AJ Barner is a tight end and Jonathan Taylor a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

AJ Barner is off in Week 11 and Jonathan Taylor in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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