Should I start Kyle Juszczyk or Michael Mayer in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Juszczyk, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kyle Juszczyk is 6.0 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Kyle Juszczyk has been on the field for 49 percent of SF snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against WAS he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Kyle Juszczyk in the last completed season.

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.

Side by side

Kyle Juszczyk is a running back and Michael Mayer a tight end, 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. No bye is listed for Kyle Juszczyk.

What would change the answer

Kyle Juszczyk has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.