Should I start Gunnar Helm or Blake Corum in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 75 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 5 of 9 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Blake Corum has been on the field for 31 percent of LAR snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 76 third down targets, had 3 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 17 times for 93 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 11 times for 73 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against WAS he carried 11 times for 58 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8-9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Blake Corum was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Blake Corum scored 7.2 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 1.5 a game between them.

Gunnar Helm finished TE31 and Blake Corum RB40, which are two different ladders.

Gunnar Helm is a tight end and Blake Corum a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Gunnar Helm is off in Week 9 and Blake Corum in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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