Should I start Jordan Mason or Mason Taylor in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mason Taylor, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Mason Taylor's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 114th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 7, Mason Taylor has been on the field for 57 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 7.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 3 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 5 of 6 targets for 62 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Mason Taylor played 13 games and scored 88.9 PPR points, 6.8 a game, finishing TE32.

He caught 44 of 65 targets for 369 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 8.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 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 Mason Taylor 6.8, 1.2 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 and Mason Taylor TE32, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Mason is a running back and Mason Taylor a tight end, 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 Mason Taylor in Week 13, 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.