Should I start Baker Mayfield or Gunnar Helm in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Baker Mayfield, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Baker Mayfield is 17.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 5 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 96 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 129 times and thrown 8.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 22 of 129 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 2 against CLE he completed 21 of 34 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 29 yards.

In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.

In Week 7 against CAR he completed 7 of 11 passes for 64 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

Through Week 7, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 78 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he was not given the ball.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.

He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Baker Mayfield was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Baker Mayfield scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 10.9 a game between them.

Baker Mayfield finished QB12 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

Baker Mayfield is a quarterback and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

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