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Should I start Darnell Mooney or Bhayshul Tuten in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 9:11 AM ET.

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Start Bhayshul Tuten: 49 percent of the snaps and 45 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Darnell Mooney's 48 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Darnell Mooney for Bhayshul Tuten?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bhayshul Tuten projects 98 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (12.2 a game over 8 games), Darnell Mooney 34 (4.3 a game over 8 games). Darnell Mooney is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR22 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 0-8

Market-based projection
4.0 pts a game

RB19 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 6-2

Market-based projection
12.3 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
61

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Mooney, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bhayshul Tuten, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Mooney's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Bhayshul Tuten is 5.0 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Darnell Mooney has been on the field for 55 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 1 time for 20 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against HOU he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Bhayshul Tuten has been on the field for 53 percent of JAX snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 6 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 3.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against HOU he carried 12 times for 39 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 48 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against IND he carried 16 times for 104 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 55 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against BAL he carried 12 times for 29 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Mooney played 15 games and scored 82.3 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR79.

He caught 32 of 72 targets for 443 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 44 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bhayshul Tuten played 15 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB53.

He carried 83 times for 307 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 14 targets for 79 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 21 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bhayshul Tuten scored 5.9 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 0.4 a game between them.

Darnell Mooney finished WR79 and Bhayshul Tuten RB53, which are two different ladders.

Darnell Mooney is a wide receiver and Bhayshul Tuten a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Darnell Mooney is off in Week 8 and Bhayshul Tuten in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Darnell Mooney is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Darnell Mooney for Bhayshul Tuten?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Bhayshul Tuten projects 98 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (12.2 a game over 8 games), Darnell Mooney 34 (4.3 a game over 8 games). Darnell Mooney is listed questionable.

  • Should I drop Bhayshul Tuten for Darnell Mooney?

    No. Keep Bhayshul Tuten: he projects 98 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (12.2 a game over 8 games), Darnell Mooney 34 (4.3 a game over 8 games). Darnell Mooney is listed questionable.

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