Should I start Jeremy McNichols or Mark Andrews in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 14 market sources. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 64 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 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.

He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.

That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 33 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.

Side by side

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 3.4 a game between them.

Jeremy McNichols finished RB58 and Mark Andrews TE16, which are two different ladders.

Jeremy McNichols 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

Jeremy McNichols is off in Week 7 and Mark Andrews in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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