Should I start Ja'Kobi Lane or Jordan Mason in Week 8?

Updated Oct 29, 7:26 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 24, 4:49 PM ET: Vikings activate RB Jordan Mason off injured reserve (ESPN)

Start Jordan Mason: 54 percent of the snaps and 52 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Ja'Kobi Lane's 54 percent of the snaps and 15 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.

Should I drop Ja'Kobi Lane for Jordan Mason?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jordan Mason projects 56 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (5.6 a game over 10 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Ja'Kobi Lane

WR43 · BAL · bye 13

Market-based projection: 6.9 pts a game

Jordan Mason

RB40 · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs rush yds line 8-8

Market-based projection: 11.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 124

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The gap

Board size309 draftable players

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 Ja'Kobi Lane, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Ja'Kobi Lane's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 110th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Ja'Kobi Lane has been on the field for 54 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 29 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against IND he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 54 percent of MIN snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

His 2 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against GB he carried 15 times for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against IND he carried 15 times for 68 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Ja'Kobi Lane is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Jordan Mason played 16 games and scored 128.9 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing RB36.

He carried 159 times for 758 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 51 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 44 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Ja'Kobi Lane is a wide receiver and Jordan Mason a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Ja'Kobi Lane is off in Week 13 and Jordan Mason in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Ja'Kobi Lane for Jordan Mason?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jordan Mason projects 56 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (5.6 a game over 10 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Jordan Mason for Ja'Kobi Lane?
No. Keep Jordan Mason: he projects 56 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (5.6 a game over 10 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games).