Should I start Evan Engram or Jordan Mason in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 216 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 2.9 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Evan Engram has been on the field for 57 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 1, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 45 percent of MIN snaps, taken 48 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Mason scored 8.1 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 1.6 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 and Jordan Mason RB36, which are two different ladders.

Evan Engram is a tight end and Jordan Mason a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Evan Engram is off in Week 10 and Jordan Mason in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jordan Mason is listed as ir on the injury report.

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.