Should I start Jordan Mason or DeMario Douglas in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 7:21 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 24, 4:49 PM ET: Vikings activate RB Jordan Mason off injured reserve (ESPN)

Start Jordan Mason: 54 percent of the snaps and 52 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against DeMario Douglas's 57 percent of the snaps and 19 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.

Should I drop Jordan Mason for DeMario Douglas?

Yes, on the rest of the season. DeMario Douglas projects 65 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (7.2 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 56 (5.6 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Jordan Mason

RB39 · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs rush yds line 8-8

Market-based projection: 11.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 116

DeMario Douglas

WR40 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection: 7.3 pts a game

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The gap

Board size305 draftable players

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 Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

DeMario Douglas's market-based projection is 7.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 54 percent of MIN snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

His 2 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against GB he carried 15 times for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against IND he carried 15 times for 68 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 55 percent of NE snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 7 of 8 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Mason played 16 games and scored 128.9 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing RB36.

He carried 159 times for 758 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 51 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 44 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.

He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DeMario Douglas was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Mason scored 8.1 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 2.4 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 and DeMario Douglas WR65, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Mason is a running back and DeMario Douglas a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Mason is off in Week 6 and DeMario Douglas in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jordan Mason for DeMario Douglas?
Yes, on the rest of the season. DeMario Douglas projects 65 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (7.2 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 56 (5.6 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop DeMario Douglas for Jordan Mason?
No. Keep DeMario Douglas: he projects 65 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (7.2 a game over 9 games), Jordan Mason 56 (5.6 a game over 10 games).