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Should I start Devin Singletary or Michael Mayer in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 9:26 PM ET.

Start Michael Mayer: 79 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Devin Singletary's 35 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the carries. 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.

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

RB34 · NYG · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 4-13

Overall rank
105

TE18 · LV · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
7.8 pts a game

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The gap

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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 Devin Singletary, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Devin Singletary is 5.2 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Devin Singletary has been on the field for 35 percent of NYG snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 3.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against DAL he carried 6 times for 16 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against LAR he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 19 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Michael Mayer has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 4.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 8 of 10 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 7 of 9 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Devin Singletary played 17 games and scored 108.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing RB45.

He carried 119 times for 437 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 19 targets for 151 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Michael Mayer played 13 games and scored 73.8 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE38.

He caught 35 of 50 targets for 328 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 9.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Devin Singletary was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Devin Singletary scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Michael Mayer 5.7, 0.7 a game between them.

Devin Singletary finished RB45 and Michael Mayer TE38, which are two different ladders.

Devin Singletary is a running back and Michael Mayer a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Michael Mayer is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Devin Singletary.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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