Should I start Michael Mayer or Quinshon Judkins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Quinshon Judkins is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

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.

Through Week 5, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 60 percent of CLE snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 17 times for 53 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 44 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Quinshon Judkins was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Michael Mayer 5.7, 5.6 a game between them.

Michael Mayer finished TE38 and Quinshon Judkins RB26, which are two different ladders.

Michael Mayer is a tight end and Quinshon Judkins a running back, 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 and Quinshon Judkins in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Quinshon Judkins is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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