Gunnar Helm or Jeremy Ruckert: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Gunnar Helm over Jeremy Ruckert
- Market projects
- 5.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.5
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 39%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Jeremy Ruckert, 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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TE20 · TEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 5.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · NYJ · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Gunnar Helm: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Jeremy Ruckert at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jeremy Ruckert, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 77 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Jeremy Ruckert has been on the field for 39 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against DET he caught 5 of 5 targets for 39 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against CHI he was not given the ball.
In Week 5 against CLE he was not given the ball.
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 Jeremy Ruckert played 17 games and scored 46.9 PPR points, 2.8 a game, finishing TE56.
He caught 23 of 29 targets for 179 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.
That came to 1.7 targets a game, a 79 percent catch rate and 7.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jeremy Ruckert was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Gunnar Helm scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Jeremy Ruckert 2.8, 3.0 a game between them.
Gunnar Helm finished TE31 that year and Jeremy Ruckert TE56.
Gunnar Helm had 26 more targets than Jeremy Ruckert, 55 to 29.
Gunnar Helm had 178 more receiving yards than Jeremy Ruckert, 357 to 179.
This season Gunnar Helm holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 39 percent.
This season Gunnar Helm holds the bigger target share, 9 percent against 6 percent.
What would change the answer
Jeremy Ruckert has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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