Should I start Jaleel McLaughlin or Mark Andrews in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaleel McLaughlin, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jaleel McLaughlin is 8.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 106th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 10 percent of CLE snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 65 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against DAL he caught 3 of 5 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.

He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.

That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 15 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 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Jaleel McLaughlin 3.9, 3.8 a game between them.

Jaleel McLaughlin finished RB82 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Jaleel McLaughlin is a running back 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

Mark Andrews is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jaleel McLaughlin.

What would change the answer

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