Should I start Mark Andrews or Kimani Vidal in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kimani Vidal, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 5.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kimani Vidal is 6.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 5 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.

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

This season through Week 8

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.

Through Week 8, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 29 percent of LAC snaps, taken 15 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against DEN he carried 8 times for 57 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against KC he carried 7 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he carried 8 times for 23 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Kimani Vidal played 13 games and scored 117.9 PPR points, 9.1 a game, finishing RB42.

He carried 155 times for 643 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 16 of 22 targets for 136 more yards.

That came to 11.9 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Mark Andrews was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 1.4 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 and Kimani Vidal RB42, which are two different ladders.

Mark Andrews is a tight end and Kimani Vidal a running back, 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 and Kimani Vidal in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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