Should I start Jordan Mason or Tee Higgins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 11.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 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.

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 13.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 55th highest figure of the 205 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 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.

Through Week 5, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 77 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 43 targets have averaged 13.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

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 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jordan Mason was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Jordan Mason 8.1, 6.1 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 and Tee Higgins WR15, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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.