Mason Taylor or Tez Johnson: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM ET
Mason Taylor is the start on the latest market price, 4.1 points to Tez Johnson's 3.6, with Tez Johnson on the market figure from his Week 5 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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TE34 · NYJ · bye unlisted
2025 vs rec yds line 4-9
- Market price
- 4.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR79 · TB · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market price
- 3.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 196
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size275 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Mason Taylor: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tez Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 196th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Mason Taylor at 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 171st highest figure of the 214 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Tez Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Tez Johnson has been on the field for 33 percent of TB snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 25.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against CLE he caught 1 of 4 targets for 49 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against MIN he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against GB he carried 1 time for 10 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 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 Tez Johnson played 16 games and scored 92.4 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR67.
He caught 28 of 44 targets for 322 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.5 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Tez Johnson was available for 3 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Mason Taylor scored 6.8 PPR points a game and Tez Johnson 5.8, 1.1 a game between them.
Mason Taylor finished TE32 and Tez Johnson WR67, which are two different ladders.
Mason Taylor is a tight end and Tez Johnson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
What would change the answer
Tez Johnson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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