Should I start Darnell Mooney or Jonathan Taylor in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Mooney, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jonathan Taylor, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 4.

The market-based projections

Darnell Mooney's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jonathan Taylor is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jonathan Taylor'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, Jonathan Taylor has been on the field for 77 percent of IND snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 48 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 15 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against MIN he carried 18 times for 95 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against JAX he carried 8 times for 23 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against DAL he carried 13 times for 46 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 18 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 Jonathan Taylor played 17 games and scored 362.3 PPR points, 21.3 a game, finishing RB4.

He carried 323 times for 1585 yards and 18 touchdowns, and caught 46 of 55 targets for 378 more yards.

That came to 19.0 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.7 catches a game.

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

Jonathan Taylor was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jonathan Taylor scored 21.3 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 15.8 a game between them.

Darnell Mooney finished WR79 and Jonathan Taylor RB4, which are two different ladders.

Darnell Mooney is a wide receiver and Jonathan Taylor a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Darnell Mooney is off in Week 8 and Jonathan Taylor in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Darnell Mooney is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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