Should I start Gunnar Helm or Pat Freiermuth in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pat Freiermuth, and the board ranks him 92nd 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 85th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Pat Freiermuth is 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.

Pat Freiermuth'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, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 67 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 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 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.

He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Pat Freiermuth was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Pat Freiermuth scored 6.7 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 1.0 a game between them.

Gunnar Helm finished TE31 that year and Pat Freiermuth TE25.

Gunnar Helm had 1 more targets than Pat Freiermuth, 55 to 54.

Pat Freiermuth had 129 more receiving yards than Gunnar Helm, 486 to 357.

This season Gunnar Helm holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 67 percent.

This season Pat Freiermuth holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Pat Freiermuth is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

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