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Should I start Bhayshul Tuten or Jordan Mason in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 4:36 AM ET.

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Week 9 verdict

Start

RB · JAX · at BAL · Questionable

Market projects
13.2
fantasy pts
BAL D vs RB
18.5
5th fewest to RBs (2026)
Snap share
56%
Through Week 8
Target share
8%
Through Week 8
Sit

RB · MIN · vs BUF

Market projects
11.7
recent weeks avg
BUF D vs RB
27.3
3rd most to RBs (2026)
Snap share
54%
Through Week 8
Target share
3%
Through Week 8
Start Tuten or Mason? The full Week 9 breakdown

Start Bhayshul Tuten: 62 percent of the snaps and 65 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jordan Mason's 54 percent of the snaps and 52 percent of the carries. 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 Jordan Mason for Bhayshul Tuten?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bhayshul Tuten projects 109 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (12.1 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 50 (5.6 a game over 9 games). For Week 9 the call starts Bhayshul Tuten over Jordan Mason. Bhayshul Tuten is listed questionable.

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

RB8 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 6-1

Market-based projection
13.4 pts a game

RB36 · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs rush yds line 8-8

Market-based projection
11.7 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
118

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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 Bhayshul Tuten, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Bhayshul Tuten's market-based projection is 13.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 17th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 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, Bhayshul Tuten has been on the field for 56 percent of JAX snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 32 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 5 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.

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

In Week 5 against PHI he carried 22 times for 72 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 8, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 54 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 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.

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.

Jordan Mason was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jordan Mason scored 8.1 PPR points a game and Bhayshul Tuten 5.9, 2.1 a game between them.

Bhayshul Tuten finished RB53 that year and Jordan Mason RB36.

Jordan Mason had 76 more carries than Bhayshul Tuten, 159 to 83.

Jordan Mason had 4 more catches than Bhayshul Tuten, 14 to 10.

This season Bhayshul Tuten holds the bigger snap share, 56 percent against 54 percent.

This season Bhayshul Tuten holds the bigger share of the carries, 57 percent against 51 percent.

Byes and availability

Bhayshul Tuten is off in Week 7 and Jordan Mason in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Bhayshul Tuten is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Jordan Mason for Bhayshul Tuten?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Bhayshul Tuten projects 109 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (12.1 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 50 (5.6 a game over 9 games). For Week 9 the call starts Bhayshul Tuten over Jordan Mason. Bhayshul Tuten is listed questionable.

  • Should I drop Bhayshul Tuten for Jordan Mason?

    No. Keep Bhayshul Tuten: he projects 109 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (12.1 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 50 (5.6 a game over 9 games). For Week 9 the call starts Bhayshul Tuten over Jordan Mason. Bhayshul Tuten is listed questionable.

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