Should I start Jordan Mason or Brock Purdy in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 11.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 22.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 225 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 so far

Through Week 8, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 46 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.

Through Week 7, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 98 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 231 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 231 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.

In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

In Week 7 against ATL he completed 27 of 39 passes for 288 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 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 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jordan Mason was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Jordan Mason 8.1, 12.8 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 and Brock Purdy QB24, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Mason is a running back and Brock Purdy 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 Brock Purdy in Week 8, 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.