Woody Marks or Bucky Irving: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Woody Marks's market-based projection is 12.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

Bucky Irving's market-based projection is 11.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Woody Marks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Woody Marks has been on the field for 53 percent of HOU snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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

Through Week 5, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 61 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 21 times for 165 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

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

Woody Marks was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 4.4 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 that year and Bucky Irving RB34.

Woody Marks had 23 more carries than Bucky Irving, 196 to 173.

Bucky Irving had 6 more catches than Woody Marks, 30 to 24.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 53 percent.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 58 percent against 37 percent.

Byes and availability

Woody Marks is off in Week 8 and Bucky Irving in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.8 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.