Should I start Jordan Watkins or Gunnar Helm in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Watkins, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Watkins is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Jordan Watkins has been on the field for 56 percent of SF snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 16.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 1 of 1 target for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ATL he caught 3 of 6 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 75 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 5 of 9 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Watkins played 4 games and scored 4.6 PPR points, 1.2 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Gunnar Helm was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Gunnar Helm scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Jordan Watkins 1.2, 4.6 a game between them.

Jordan Watkins is a wide receiver and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Watkins is off in Week 8 and Gunnar Helm in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Jordan Watkins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.