Should I start Jonathon Brooks or Woody Marks in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 1:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Woody Marks: Listed Questionable (Leg) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Woody Marks: 84 percent of the snaps and 65 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jonathon Brooks's 25 percent of the snaps and 21 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB · CAR · bye 5
- Overall rank
- 265
RB · HOU · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 5-2
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 270
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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 Jonathon Brooks, and the board ranks him 265th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 270th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jonathon Brooks, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Woody Marks, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 2, Jonathon Brooks has been on the field for 25 percent of CAR snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against CHI he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Woody Marks has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.
In Week 5 against TEN he carried 15 times for 62 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against JAX he carried 15 times for 56 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYG he carried 19 times for 66 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Jonathon Brooks in the last completed season.
In 2025 Woody Marks played 16 games and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.
He carried 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 more yards.
That came to 12.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Woody Marks holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 25 percent.
This season Woody Marks holds the bigger share of the carries, 47 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Jonathon Brooks is off in Week 5 and Woody Marks in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jonathon Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
Woody Marks is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
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