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Should I start Woody Marks or Kyle Pitts Sr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 12:11 PM ET.

Start Woody Marks: 70 percent of the snaps and 52 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kyle Pitts Sr.'s 65 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets. 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.

Should I drop Kyle Pitts Sr. for Woody Marks?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Woody Marks projects 76 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.6 a game over 10 games), Kyle Pitts Sr. 72 (7.2 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB27 · HOU · bye 8

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Market-based projection
12.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
83

TE11 · ATL · bye 11

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Market-based projection
8.6 pts a game

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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 Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based 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.

Through Week 6, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 59 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 5 of 7 targets for 60 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyle Pitts Sr. was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 3.0 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 and Kyle Pitts Sr. TE2, which are two different ladders.

Woody Marks is a running back and Kyle Pitts Sr. a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Kyle Pitts Sr. for Woody Marks?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Woody Marks projects 76 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.6 a game over 10 games), Kyle Pitts Sr. 72 (7.2 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Woody Marks for Kyle Pitts Sr.?

    No. Keep Woody Marks: he projects 76 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.6 a game over 10 games), Kyle Pitts Sr. 72 (7.2 a game over 10 games).

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