Should I start Jordan Mason or Rico Dowdle in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rico Dowdle, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 10.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 9.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 69th highest figure of the 213 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 so far

Through Week 9, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 46 percent of MIN snaps, taken 51 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against IND he carried 15 times for 68 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DET he carried 8 times for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against BUF he carried 6 times for 35 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 40 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 7 times for 40 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he carried 9 times for 41 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CLE he carried 15 times for 56 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Jordan Mason 8.1, 4.7 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 that year and Rico Dowdle RB18.

Rico Dowdle had 77 more carries than Jordan Mason, 236 to 159.

Rico Dowdle had 25 more catches than Jordan Mason, 39 to 14.

This season Jordan Mason holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 40 percent.

This season Jordan Mason holds the bigger share of the carries, 51 percent against 37 percent.

Byes and availability

Jordan Mason is off in Week 6 and Rico Dowdle in Week 9, 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.