Should I start Jordan Mason or Bo Nix in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 8:16 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 24, 4:49 PM ET: Vikings activate RB Jordan Mason off injured reserve (ESPN)

Start Bo Nix: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets 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 Bo Nix?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 146 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 55 (5.5 a game over 10 games).

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

Jordan Mason

RB33 · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs rush yds line 8-8

Market-based projection: 11.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 100

Bo Nix

QB17 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs pass yds line 2-5

Market-based projection: 15.8 pts a game

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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 Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 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.

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 15.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 54 percent of MIN snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

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.

Through Week 7, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 234 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 234 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he completed 15 of 29 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 75 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Jordan Mason 8.1, 10.5 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Mason is a running back and Bo Nix a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Mason is off in Week 6 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

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 Bo Nix?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 146 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 55 (5.5 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Bo Nix for Jordan Mason?
No. Keep Bo Nix: he projects 146 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 55 (5.5 a game over 10 games).

Should I drop Bo Nix?