Should I start Darnell Mooney or Chris Olave in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Mooney, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Olave, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 9.

The market-based projections

Darnell Mooney's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Chris Olave is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Darnell Mooney has been on the field for 55 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 1 time for 20 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against HOU he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Chris Olave has been on the field for 81 percent of NO snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 21 of the offence's 75 third down targets, had 1 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 83 targets have averaged 13.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 4 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PIT he caught 6 of 10 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against CLE he caught 7 of 12 targets for 98 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Mooney played 15 games and scored 82.3 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR79.

He caught 32 of 72 targets for 443 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 44 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chris Olave played 16 games and scored 269.0 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing WR6.

He caught 100 of 156 targets for 1163 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chris Olave was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chris Olave scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 11.3 a game between them.

Darnell Mooney finished WR79 that year and Chris Olave WR6.

Chris Olave had 84 more targets than Darnell Mooney, 156 to 72.

Chris Olave had 720 more receiving yards than Darnell Mooney, 1163 to 443.

This season Chris Olave holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 55 percent.

This season Chris Olave holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Darnell Mooney is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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