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Should I start Jordan Mason or Keon Coleman in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 8:06 AM ET.

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  • : Vikings activate RB Jordan Mason off injured reserve (ESPN)

Start Keon Coleman: 78 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jordan Mason's 45 percent of the snaps and 48 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.

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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.

RB32 · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs rush yds line 8-8

Market-based projection
11.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
96

WR41 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Overall rank
98

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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 Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keon Coleman, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 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 Keon Coleman is 2.1 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 45 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.

Through Week 6, Keon Coleman has been on the field for 68 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 6 of 7 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Keon Coleman played 13 games and scored 102.4 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR60.

He caught 38 of 59 targets for 404 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 4-5 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jordan Mason was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Mason scored 8.1 PPR points a game and Keon Coleman 7.9, 0.2 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 and Keon Coleman WR60, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Jordan Mason is off in Week 6 and Keon Coleman in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Both players in full

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