Should I start Ollie Gordon II or Darnell Mooney in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ollie Gordon II is 4.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

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.

Ollie Gordon II's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 79 percent of MIA snaps, taken 72 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 57 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 5 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 10 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 25 times for 103 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against NE he carried 19 times for 69 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against DET he carried 16 times for 55 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 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.

Ollie Gordon II was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Darnell Mooney scored 5.5 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 2.3 a game between them.

Ollie Gordon II finished RB68 and Darnell Mooney WR79, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Ollie Gordon II is off in Week 6 and Darnell Mooney in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Ollie Gordon II has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.