Should I start Mark Andrews or Chig Okonkwo in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Mark Andrews over Chig Okonkwo
- Market projects
- 8.1
- fantasy pts
- CLE D vs TE
- 14.6
- 13th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 65%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 23%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.2
- recent weeks avg
- SF D vs TE
- 8.2
- 4th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 61%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Chig Okonkwo, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
TE15 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE38 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs rec yds line 7-5
- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 214
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Mark Andrews: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chig Okonkwo: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 214th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Chig Okonkwo is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.
Chig Okonkwo's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 65 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 13 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 35 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he caught 3 of 5 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TEN he caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against ATL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 61 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.
In Week 1 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against IND he caught 2 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.
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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 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.
He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 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.
Head to head
In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 0.4 a game between them.
Mark Andrews finished TE16 that year and Chig Okonkwo TE21.
Chig Okonkwo had 9 more targets than Mark Andrews, 79 to 70.
Chig Okonkwo had 138 more receiving yards than Mark Andrews, 560 to 422.
This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 61 percent.
This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 15 percent.
Byes and availability
Mark Andrews is off in Week 13 and Chig Okonkwo in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Chig Okonkwo is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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