Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Michael Mayer in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Mayer, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Michael Mayer's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Michael Mayer 5.7, 5.7 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Michael Mayer TE38, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back and Michael Mayer a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and Michael Mayer in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as pup on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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