Should I start Mark Andrews or Colby Parkinson 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.

Our board does not carry Colby Parkinson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

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.

No season market is posted for Colby Parkinson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

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 7, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 63 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 2.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LV he caught 5 of 6 targets for 48 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 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Mark Andrews was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 0.9 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 that year and Colby Parkinson TE17.

Mark Andrews had 14 more targets than Colby Parkinson, 70 to 56.

Mark Andrews had 14 more receiving yards than Colby Parkinson, 422 to 408.

This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 63 percent.

This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Mark Andrews is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

Colby Parkinson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.