Should I start Mason Taylor or Tyler Higbee in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mason Taylor, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Mason Taylor's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 114th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Higbee is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Mason Taylor has been on the field for 57 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 7.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 3 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 5 of 6 targets for 62 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 7, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 59 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LV he caught 2 of 3 targets for 14 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 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Mason Taylor was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyler Higbee scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Mason Taylor 6.8, 0.3 a game between them.

Mason Taylor finished TE32 that year and Tyler Higbee TE40.

Mason Taylor had 29 more targets than Tyler Higbee, 65 to 36.

Mason Taylor had 88 more receiving yards than Tyler Higbee, 369 to 281.

This season Tyler Higbee holds the bigger snap share, 59 percent against 57 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 12 percent each.

Byes and availability

Mason Taylor is off in Week 13 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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