Should I start Darnell Mooney or Zay Flowers 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 Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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 Zay Flowers is 3.9 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.

Zay Flowers'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, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 67 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 64 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 137 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 0 of 5 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against JAX he carried 3 times for 17 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 6 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 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zay Flowers was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 8.8 a game between them.

Darnell Mooney finished WR79 that year and Zay Flowers WR7.

Zay Flowers had 46 more targets than Darnell Mooney, 118 to 72.

Zay Flowers had 768 more receiving yards than Darnell Mooney, 1211 to 443.

This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger snap share, 67 percent against 55 percent.

This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Darnell Mooney is off in Week 8 and Zay Flowers 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

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