Should I start Michael Mayer or Colby Parkinson in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 4:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Michael Mayer over Colby Parkinson
- Market projects
- 7.0
- recent weeks avg
- LAR D vs TE
- 8.3
- 2nd fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 81%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 16%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 4.6
- recent weeks avg
- LV D vs TE
- 17.7
- 7th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 62%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 7%
- Through Week 6
Start Michael Mayer: 79 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Colby Parkinson's 56 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets. 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE30 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 7.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 156
TE · LAR · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
- Board size299 draftable players
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 Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Colby Parkinson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Michael Mayer is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Colby Parkinson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Michael Mayer has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 36 two minute targets.
His 34 targets have averaged 4.5 air yards.
In Week 4 against KC he caught 8 of 10 targets for 82 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NE he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against BUF he caught 7 of 9 targets for 95 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Michael Mayer played 13 games and scored 73.8 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE38.
He caught 35 of 50 targets for 328 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 9.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.
He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.
That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Colby Parkinson was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Michael Mayer 5.7, 3.0 a game between them.
Michael Mayer finished TE38 that year and Colby Parkinson TE17.
Colby Parkinson had 6 more targets than Michael Mayer, 56 to 50.
Colby Parkinson had 80 more receiving yards than Michael Mayer, 408 to 328.
This season Michael Mayer holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 62 percent.
This season Michael Mayer holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 7 percent.
Byes and availability
Michael Mayer is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.
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