Should I start Bryce Young or Mark Andrews in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

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

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Bryce Young has been on the field for 94 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 250 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 41 of 250 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he completed 20 of 39 passes for 281 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.

In Week 7 against TB he completed 14 of 27 passes for 163 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 9 yards.

Through Week 7, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 65 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 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.

He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 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.

Mark Andrews was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 6.6 a game between them.

Bryce Young finished QB19 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Bryce Young is a quarterback 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

Bryce Young is off in Week 5 and Mark Andrews in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.