Should I start Bhayshul Tuten or Keaton Mitchell in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bhayshul Tuten, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keaton Mitchell, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Bhayshul Tuten's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 49th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Keaton Mitchell is 1.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Bhayshul Tuten has been on the field for 56 percent of JAX snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 5 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have come 3.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 17 times for 73 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 6, Keaton Mitchell has been on the field for 32 percent of LAC snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 10 times for 39 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DEN he carried 6 times for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against KC he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Keaton Mitchell played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB67.

He carried 59 times for 341 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 9 of 12 targets for 63 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 5.8 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bhayshul Tuten was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Bhayshul Tuten scored 5.9 PPR points a game and Keaton Mitchell 4.3, 1.6 a game between them.

Bhayshul Tuten finished RB53 that year and Keaton Mitchell RB67.

Bhayshul Tuten had 24 more carries than Keaton Mitchell, 83 to 59.

Bhayshul Tuten had 1 more catches than Keaton Mitchell, 10 to 9.

This season Bhayshul Tuten holds the bigger snap share, 56 percent against 32 percent.

This season Bhayshul Tuten holds the bigger share of the carries, 58 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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