Should I start Gunnar Helm or Josh Oliver in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Gunnar Helm: 76 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Josh Oliver's 55 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE · TEN · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 0-8
- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 287
TE · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs anytime td line 3-12
- Overall rank
- 292
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The gap
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Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 287th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Oliver, and the board ranks him 292nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Gunnar Helm, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Josh Oliver, 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 so far
Through Week 8, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 78 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.
Through Week 3, Josh Oliver has been on the field for 55 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 3.6 air yards.
In Week 1 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against CHI he caught 1 of 1 target for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB 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 Josh Oliver played 15 games and scored 55.0 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE49.
He caught 15 of 19 targets for 160 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 1.3 targets a game, a 79 percent catch rate and 10.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Gunnar Helm was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Gunnar Helm scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Josh Oliver 3.7, 2.1 a game between them.
Gunnar Helm finished TE31 that year and Josh Oliver TE49.
Gunnar Helm had 36 more targets than Josh Oliver, 55 to 19.
Gunnar Helm had 197 more receiving yards than Josh Oliver, 357 to 160.
This season Gunnar Helm holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 55 percent.
This season Gunnar Helm holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 7 percent.
Byes and availability
Gunnar Helm is off in Week 9 and Josh Oliver in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Josh Oliver is listed as ir on the injury report.
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