Should I start Darnell Mooney or Mike Evans in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Mooney, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Mooney's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 3.4 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.

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

This season so far

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 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 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 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Darnell Mooney was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Mike Evans scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 5.1 a game between them.

Darnell Mooney finished WR79 that year and Mike Evans WR76.

Darnell Mooney had 11 more targets than Mike Evans, 72 to 61.

Darnell Mooney had 75 more receiving yards than Mike Evans, 443 to 368.

Their snap share this season is the same, 55 percent each.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger target share, 23 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.

Mike Evans is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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