Should I start Blake Corum or Mark Andrews in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 3.2 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.

The market-based projection for Mark Andrews is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Blake Corum has been on the field for 27 percent of LAR snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 2 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 5 times for 19 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 9 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 17 times for 93 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 66 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 2 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 7.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8-9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Mark Andrews played 17 games and scored 131.0 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing TE16.

He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 0.5 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Blake Corum is a running back and Mark Andrews a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Blake Corum is off in Week 11 and Mark Andrews in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.