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Should I start Gunnar Helm or Michael Wilson in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 7:31 AM ET.

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  • : Michael Wilson: Out to IR (Neck, Fracture) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Cardinals WR Michael Wilson (neck) to miss rest of season (ESPN)
  • : Michael Wilson: Listed Out (Neck, Fracture) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Michael Wilson: 84 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Gunnar Helm's 73 percent of the snaps and 14 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE20 · TEN · bye 9

2026 vs anytime td line 0-8

Market-based projection
5.3 pts a game

WR57 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs anytime td line 2-7

Market-based projection
10.9 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
143

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Michael Wilson is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

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.

Through Week 9, Michael Wilson has been on the field for 88 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 24 of the offence's 95 third down targets, had 10 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 22 of its 58 two minute targets.

His 88 targets have averaged 10.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against DEN he carried 2 times for 11 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he carried 1 time for 17 yards, caught 8 of 15 targets for 111 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against SEA he caught 6 of 7 targets for 60 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 Michael Wilson played 17 games and scored 220.6 PPR points, 13.0 a game, finishing WR10.

He caught 78 of 126 targets for 1006 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Michael Wilson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Michael Wilson scored 13.0 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 7.2 a game between them.

Gunnar Helm finished TE31 and Michael Wilson WR10, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Gunnar Helm is off in Week 9 and Michael Wilson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

Michael Wilson is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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