Should I start Ashton Jeanty or Jordan Mason in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ashton Jeanty, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 25.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 31st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Ashton Jeanty's market-based projection is 13.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 44th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 11.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 66 percent of LV snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 9 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against BUF he carried 10 times for 22 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 36 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LAR he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 8 of 8 targets for 61 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against NYJ he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 46 percent of MIN snaps, taken 51 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against GB he carried 15 times for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against IND he carried 15 times for 68 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DET he carried 8 times for 20 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty played 17 games and scored 245.1 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing RB11.

He carried 266 times for 975 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 55 of 73 targets for 346 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 3.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jordan Mason played 16 games and scored 128.9 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing RB36.

He carried 159 times for 758 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 51 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 44 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ashton Jeanty was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty scored 14.4 PPR points a game and Jordan Mason 8.1, 6.4 a game between them.

Ashton Jeanty finished RB11 that year and Jordan Mason RB36.

Ashton Jeanty had 107 more carries than Jordan Mason, 266 to 159.

Ashton Jeanty had 41 more catches than Jordan Mason, 55 to 14.

This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 46 percent.

This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger share of the carries, 55 percent against 51 percent.

Byes and availability

Ashton Jeanty is off in Week 13 and Jordan Mason in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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