Travis Etienne Jr. or Jordan Mason: who should I start in Week 3?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 3:31 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB43 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Books price
- 9.4 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 155
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
RB45 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 8-8
- Books price
- 2.7 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 159
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Etienne Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 55.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Mason: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 159th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 113.
What the sportsbooks price
The books have Travis Etienne Jr. at 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 15 books. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jordan Mason, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 2, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 57 percent of NO snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 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
The season feed carries no line for Travis Etienne Jr. in the last completed season.
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.
Head to head
This season Travis Etienne Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 45 percent.
This season Jordan Mason holds the bigger share of the carries, 48 percent against 33 percent.
Byes and availability
Travis Etienne Jr. is off in Week 8 and Jordan Mason in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Jordan Mason is listed as ir on the injury report.
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