Fernando Mendoza or Tetairoa McMillan: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB37 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 213
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
WR84 · CAR · on bye this week
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- Market price
- 16.3 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 215
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 24
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Fernando Mendoza: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 213th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tetairoa McMillan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 215th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Fernando Mendoza, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Tetairoa McMillan, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 4
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Fernando Mendoza this season.
Through Week 4, Tetairoa McMillan has been on the field for 87 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 3 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 39 targets have averaged 11.5 air yards.
In Week 2 against ATL he caught 5 of 10 targets for 101 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CLE he caught 2 of 5 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DET he caught 14 of 16 targets for 192 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Their 2025 seasons
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Tetairoa McMillan played 17 games and scored 211.4 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing WR16.
He caught 70 of 122 targets for 1014 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 14.5 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Fernando Mendoza is a quarterback and Tetairoa McMillan a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Fernando Mendoza is off in Week 13 and Tetairoa McMillan in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
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