Should I start Gunnar Helm or D'Andre Swift in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on D'Andre Swift, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

The market-based projections

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

D'Andre Swift's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 78 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 7, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 14 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 9 times for 43 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 16 times for 44 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 26 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against NE he carried 22 times for 78 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 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 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 8.6 a game between them.

Gunnar Helm finished TE31 and D'Andre Swift RB15, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.