Should I start Mark Andrews or Courtland Sutton in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Courtland Sutton, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Courtland Sutton is 1.9 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.

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

This season through Week 7

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.

Through Week 7, Courtland Sutton has been on the field for 77 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 45 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 Courtland Sutton played 17 games and scored 219.7 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR13.

He caught 74 of 124 targets for 1017 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 7.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Courtland Sutton scored 12.9 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 5.2 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 and Courtland Sutton WR13, which are two different ladders.

Mark Andrews is a tight end and Courtland Sutton a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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