Should I start Audric Estime or Michael Mayer in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Audric Estime, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Audric Estime is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 5.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Audric Estime has been on the field for 26 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 2 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against BAL he carried 9 times for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against CLE he carried 15 times for 72 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Michael Mayer has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 84 third down targets, had 2 of its 27 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 5 of 6 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against SF he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Audric Estime played 7 games and scored 48.1 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing RB71.

He carried 46 times for 198 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 12 of 13 targets for 103 more yards.

That came to 6.6 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Michael Mayer played 13 games and scored 73.8 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE38.

He caught 35 of 50 targets for 328 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 9.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Michael Mayer was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Audric Estime scored 6.9 PPR points a game and Michael Mayer 5.7, 1.2 a game between them.

Audric Estime finished RB71 and Michael Mayer TE38, which are two different ladders.

Audric Estime is a running back and Michael Mayer a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Audric Estime is off in Week 8 and Michael Mayer in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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