Should I start Javonte Williams or Mark Andrews in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 6.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 5.6 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 75 percent of DAL snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 21 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 50 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have come 1.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against GB he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PHI he carried 25 times for 155 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against ARI he carried 24 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Javonte Williams played 16 games and scored 242.8 PPR points, 15.2 a game, finishing RB12.

He carried 252 times for 1201 yards and 11 touchdowns, and caught 35 of 51 targets for 137 more yards.

That came to 15.8 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 68 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 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Javonte Williams scored 15.2 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 7.5 a game between them.

Javonte Williams finished RB12 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Javonte Williams 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

Javonte Williams is off in Week 14 and Mark Andrews in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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