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Should I start Mark Andrews or Emanuel Wilson in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 12:16 PM ET.

Start Mark Andrews: 67 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Emanuel Wilson's 45 percent of the snaps and 62 percent of the carries. 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 Mark Andrews for Emanuel Wilson?

Not on these numbers alone. Mark Andrews projects 77 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (8.5 a game over 9 games) and Emanuel Wilson 79 (8.8 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

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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 Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 76th 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 12 market sources. That is the 69th highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Emanuel Wilson'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, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 41 percent of SEA snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 7 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 24 times for 100 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.

He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.

That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 2.1 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 and Emanuel Wilson RB49, which are two different ladders.

Mark Andrews is a tight end and Emanuel Wilson a running back, 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 Emanuel Wilson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Emanuel Wilson 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 Mark Andrews for Emanuel Wilson?

    Not on these numbers alone. Mark Andrews projects 77 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (8.5 a game over 9 games) and Emanuel Wilson 79 (8.8 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

  • Should I drop Emanuel Wilson for Mark Andrews?

    Not on these numbers alone. Emanuel Wilson projects 79 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (8.8 a game over 9 games) and Mark Andrews 77 (8.5 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

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