Should I start Rashod Bateman or Jordan Mason in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Rashod Bateman's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based 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.

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, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 70 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 33 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 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 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 Rashod Bateman 4.3, 3.8 a game between them.

Rashod Bateman finished WR102 and Jordan Mason RB36, which are two different ladders.

Rashod Bateman is a wide receiver 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

Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13 and Jordan Mason in Week 6, 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.