Should I start Davis Allen or Mark Andrews in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:46 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Mark Andrews: 68 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Davis Allen's 44 percent of the snaps and 3 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
Should I drop Davis Allen for Mark Andrews?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Mark Andrews projects 92 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.2 a game over 10 games), Davis Allen 21 (2.1 a game over 10 games).
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
TE36 · LAR · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 2.1 pts a game
TE37 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 8.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 188
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Davis Allen, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Davis Allen's market-based projection is 2.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 170th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Mark Andrews is 2.0 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.
Mark Andrews's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Davis Allen has been on the field for 42 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.
In Week 4 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against BUF he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against ARI he carried 1 time for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 66 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 15 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 2 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 33 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
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.
In Week 6 against CLE he caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Davis Allen played 17 games and scored 62.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE44.
He caught 24 of 33 targets for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 1.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 50 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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Davis Allen 3.7, 4.0 a game between them.
Davis Allen finished TE44 that year and Mark Andrews TE16.
Mark Andrews had 37 more targets than Davis Allen, 70 to 33.
Mark Andrews had 214 more receiving yards than Davis Allen, 422 to 208.
This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 42 percent.
This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 4 percent.
Byes and availability
Mark Andrews is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Davis Allen.
What would change the answer
Mark Andrews has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Davis Allen for Mark Andrews?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Mark Andrews projects 92 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.2 a game over 10 games), Davis Allen 21 (2.1 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Mark Andrews for Davis Allen?
No. Keep Mark Andrews: he projects 92 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.2 a game over 10 games), Davis Allen 21 (2.1 a game over 10 games).
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