Should I start Woody Marks or Josh Jacobs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 4.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 4.6 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Woody Marks has been on the field for 57 percent of HOU snaps, taken 41 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.

He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Woody Marks was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 6.4 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.

Josh Jacobs had 38 more carries than Woody Marks, 234 to 196.

Josh Jacobs had 12 more catches than Woody Marks, 36 to 24.

Byes and availability

Woody Marks is off in Week 8 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.