Should I start Mike Gesicki or Ashton Jeanty in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ashton Jeanty, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 28th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ashton Jeanty is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 48 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 3 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 76 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 66 percent of LV snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 84 third down targets, had 9 of its 27 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 55 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against SF he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for -5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Ashton Jeanty was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty scored 14.4 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 9.0 a game between them.

Mike Gesicki finished TE41 and Ashton Jeanty RB11, which are two different ladders.

Mike Gesicki is a tight end and Ashton Jeanty a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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