Should I start Caleb Williams or Mark Andrews in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Caleb Williams's market-based projection is 17.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 97 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 150 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 150 dropbacks and scrambled 14 times.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.

In Week 7 against NE he completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 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 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.

He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 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 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 11.4 a game between them.

Caleb Williams finished QB5 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Caleb Williams 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

Caleb Williams is off in Week 10 and Mark Andrews in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.6 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.