Should I start Woody Marks or Alvin Kamara in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 183rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Woody Marks's market-based projection is 12.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Alvin Kamara is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Woody Marks has been on the field for 62 percent of HOU snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 51 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 1.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 15 times for 56 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he carried 19 times for 66 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAC he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 37 percent of NO snaps, taken 27 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 7 times for 34 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PIT he carried 6 times for 5 yards, caught 7 of 7 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against CLE he carried 6 times for 32 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Woody Marks played 16 games and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.

He carried 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 more yards.

That came to 12.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Alvin Kamara played 11 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing RB46.

He carried 131 times for 471 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 33 of 39 targets for 186 more yards.

That came to 11.9 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Woody Marks was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Alvin Kamara 9.2, 0.3 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 that year and Alvin Kamara RB46.

Woody Marks had 65 more carries than Alvin Kamara, 196 to 131.

Alvin Kamara had 9 more catches than Woody Marks, 33 to 24.

This season Woody Marks holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 37 percent.

This season Woody Marks holds the bigger share of the carries, 50 percent against 27 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Woody Marks is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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