Should I start Gunnar Helm or Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin Jr., and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Harold Fannin Jr. at 3.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Harold Fannin Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 78 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 7, Harold Fannin Jr. has been on the field for 83 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 4.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against TEN he caught 6 of 9 targets for 91 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.

He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. scored 11.7 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 5.9 a game between them.

Gunnar Helm finished TE31 that year and Harold Fannin Jr. TE6.

Harold Fannin Jr. had 52 more targets than Gunnar Helm, 107 to 55.

Harold Fannin Jr. had 374 more receiving yards than Gunnar Helm, 731 to 357.

This season Harold Fannin Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 78 percent.

This season Harold Fannin Jr. holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Harold Fannin Jr. is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

Harold Fannin Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.