Should I start Isaac TeSlaa or Darnell Mooney in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 5:01 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start Isaac TeSlaa over Darnell Mooney

- Market projects
- 5.0
- recent weeks avg
- MIA D vs WR
- 23.8
- 3rd fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 60%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 10%
- Through Week 7

- Market projects
- 4.3
- recent weeks avg
- PHI D vs WR
- 40.1
- 2nd most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 55%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 7
Start Isaac TeSlaa: 57 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Darnell Mooney's 53 percent of the snaps and 10 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.
WR64 · DET · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 0-7
- Market-based projection
- 4.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 159
WR · NYG · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-7
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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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 Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 159th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Darnell Mooney 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 Isaac TeSlaa is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Darnell Mooney, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 7
Through Week 7, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 60 percent of DET snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 21 targets have averaged 12.4 air yards.
In Week 4 against CAR he caught 4 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Darnell Mooney has been on the field for 55 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 13.6 air yards.
In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 7 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.
He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Isaac TeSlaa was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Darnell Mooney scored 5.5 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 1.0 a game between them.
Isaac TeSlaa finished WR82 that year and Darnell Mooney WR79.
Darnell Mooney had 45 more targets than Isaac TeSlaa, 72 to 27.
Darnell Mooney had 204 more receiving yards than Isaac TeSlaa, 443 to 239.
This season Isaac TeSlaa holds the bigger snap share, 60 percent against 55 percent.
This season Isaac TeSlaa holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Isaac TeSlaa is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Darnell Mooney.
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