Should I start Devaughn Vele or Gunnar Helm in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Devaughn Vele, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Devaughn Vele is 2.0 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.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Devaughn Vele has been on the field for 92 percent of NO snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 75 third down targets, had 3 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 52 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 3 of 6 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PIT he caught 5 of 5 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 75 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against IND he was not given the ball.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 5 of 9 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Devaughn Vele played 13 games and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.

He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Gunnar Helm was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Gunnar Helm scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Devaughn Vele 5.1, 0.6 a game between them.

Devaughn Vele finished WR95 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

Devaughn Vele is a wide receiver and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Devaughn Vele is off in Week 8 and Gunnar Helm in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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