Should I start Jaylen Wright or Jordan Mason in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 10:16 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 25, 4:13 PM ET: Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Quadriceps) (Sleeper injury feed)
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 Jaylen Wright's 17 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the carries. 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 Jaylen Wright 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), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games).

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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.

Jaylen Wright

RB38 · MIA · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank: 112

Jordan Mason

RB39 · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs rush yds line 8-8

Market-based projection: 11.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 117

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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 Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 8 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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

In 2025 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Jordan Mason was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jordan Mason scored 8.1 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 3.2 a game between them.

Jaylen Wright finished RB70 that year and Jordan Mason RB36.

Jordan Mason had 89 more carries than Jaylen Wright, 159 to 70.

Jordan Mason had 9 more catches than Jaylen Wright, 14 to 5.

This season Jordan Mason holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 13 percent.

This season Jordan Mason holds the bigger share of the carries, 52 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Jordan Mason is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jaylen Wright 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), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Jordan Mason for Jaylen Wright?
No. Keep Jordan Mason: he projects 56 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (5.6 a game over 10 games), Jaylen Wright 28 (2.8 a game over 10 games).