Should I start AJ Barner or Mason Taylor in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mason Taylor, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

AJ Barner's market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Mason Taylor is 1.3 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, AJ Barner has been on the field for 90 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 52 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 6, Mason Taylor has been on the field for 56 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against GB he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 3 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 33 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 Mason Taylor played 13 games and scored 88.9 PPR points, 6.8 a game, finishing TE32.

He caught 44 of 65 targets for 369 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 8.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

AJ Barner was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Mason Taylor 6.8, 1.8 a game between them.

AJ Barner finished TE14 that year and Mason Taylor TE32.

AJ Barner had 3 more targets than Mason Taylor, 68 to 65.

AJ Barner had 150 more receiving yards than Mason Taylor, 519 to 369.

This season AJ Barner holds the bigger snap share, 90 percent against 56 percent.

This season AJ Barner holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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