Mason Taylor or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Mason Taylor: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Mason Taylor at 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 178th highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

The market has Saquon Barkley at 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Saquon Barkley's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 2, Mason Taylor has been on the field for 55 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against GB he was not given the ball.

Through Week 4, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mason Taylor played 13 games and scored 88.9 PPR points, 6.8 a game, finishing TE32.

He caught 44 of 65 targets for 369 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 8.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17.5 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Saquon Barkley was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and Mason Taylor 6.8, 7.7 a game between them.

Mason Taylor finished TE32 and Saquon Barkley RB14, which are two different ladders.

Mason Taylor is a tight end and Saquon Barkley a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Mason Taylor.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Saquon Barkley is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.