Should I start Brock Bowers or Woody Marks in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 83 percent of LV snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 23 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 61 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 4 of 9 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 7 of 10 targets for 92 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 7, Woody Marks has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 15 times for 62 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Woody Marks was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 5.2 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 and Woody Marks RB29, which are two different ladders.

Brock Bowers is a tight end and Woody Marks a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13 and Woody Marks in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Woody Marks is listed as questionable on the injury report.