Should I start Mark Andrews or Jake Ferguson 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.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 5.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jake Ferguson is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

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, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 66 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Jake Ferguson scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 3.4 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 that year and Jake Ferguson TE5.

Jake Ferguson had 32 more targets than Mark Andrews, 102 to 70.

Jake Ferguson had 178 more receiving yards than Mark Andrews, 600 to 422.

This season Jake Ferguson holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 65 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 and Jake Ferguson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jake Ferguson is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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