Should I start Cooper Kupp or Mark Andrews in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Cooper Kupp is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 5.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 68 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 5 of 10 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CHI he caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 64 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Cooper Kupp played 16 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR53.

He caught 47 of 70 targets for 593 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 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.

Mark Andrews was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Cooper Kupp 7.3, 0.4 a game between them.

Cooper Kupp finished WR53 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver 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

Cooper Kupp is off in Week 11 and Mark Andrews in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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