Should I start Mark Andrews or Charlie Kolar in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Charlie Kolar, and the board ranks him 178th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 5.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Charlie Kolar is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 65 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 41 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 3 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Charlie Kolar has been on the field for 65 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he caught 1 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Charlie Kolar played 17 games and scored 36.2 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing TE62.

He caught 10 of 15 targets for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 0.9 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 40 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Charlie Kolar 2.1, 5.6 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 that year and Charlie Kolar TE62.

Mark Andrews had 55 more targets than Charlie Kolar, 70 to 15.

Mark Andrews had 280 more receiving yards than Charlie Kolar, 422 to 142.

Their snap share this season is the same, 65 percent each.

This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Mark Andrews is off in Week 13 and Charlie Kolar in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Charlie Kolar has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.