Should I start Michael Mayer or Tyler Warren in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Warren, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 5.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 51st highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Warren is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Michael Mayer has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 84 third down targets, had 2 of its 27 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 5 of 6 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against SF he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Tyler Warren has been on the field for 87 percent of IND snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 53 targets have averaged 4.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 83 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against JAX he caught 4 of 10 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against DAL he caught 4 of 7 targets for 44 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 Tyler Warren played 17 games and scored 188.5 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE4.

He caught 76 of 112 targets for 817 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tyler Warren was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyler Warren scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Michael Mayer 5.7, 5.4 a game between them.

Michael Mayer finished TE38 that year and Tyler Warren TE4.

Tyler Warren had 62 more targets than Michael Mayer, 112 to 50.

Tyler Warren had 489 more receiving yards than Michael Mayer, 817 to 328.

This season Tyler Warren holds the bigger snap share, 87 percent against 81 percent.

This season Tyler Warren holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 15 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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