Should I start Mike Gesicki or Jaylen Wright in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Mike Gesicki was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Mike Gesicki scored 5.4 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 0.6 a game between them.

Mike Gesicki finished TE41 and Jaylen Wright RB70, which are two different ladders.

Mike Gesicki is a tight end and Jaylen Wright a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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