Should I start Michael Mayer or Jordan Mason in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 202 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 3.2 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Michael Mayer has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 4.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 8 of 10 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 7 of 9 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

Through Week 1, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 45 percent of MIN snaps, taken 48 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Michael Mayer played 13 games and scored 73.8 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE38.

He caught 35 of 50 targets for 328 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 9.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 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 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Mason scored 8.1 PPR points a game and Michael Mayer 5.7, 2.4 a game between them.

Michael Mayer finished TE38 and Jordan Mason RB36, which are two different ladders.

Michael Mayer is a tight end 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

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

Jordan Mason is listed as ir on the injury report.

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.