Should I start George Pickens or Jordan Mason in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Pickens, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

George Pickens's market-based projection is 13.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 58th highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 11.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 market sources. That is 70 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, George Pickens has been on the field for 85 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 3 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 52 targets have averaged 11.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 2 of 3 targets for 75 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 9 of 13 targets for 130 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 6 of 11 targets for 73 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 George Pickens played 17 games and scored 291.9 PPR points, 17.2 a game, finishing WR5.

He caught 93 of 137 targets for 1429 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 21 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 15.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 83 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.

George Pickens was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 George Pickens scored 17.2 PPR points a game and Jordan Mason 8.1, 9.1 a game between them.

George Pickens finished WR5 and Jordan Mason RB36, which are two different ladders.

George Pickens is a wide receiver 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

George Pickens is off in Week 14 and Jordan Mason in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

George Pickens is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.