Matthew Golden or Woody Marks: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Matthew Golden's market-based projection is 13.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 48th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

Woody Marks's market-based projection is 12.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Golden: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Woody Marks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 83 percent of GB snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 44 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against ATL he caught 5 of 12 targets for 100 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 3 of 7 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CHI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 123 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Woody Marks has been on the field for 53 percent of HOU snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.

He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Woody Marks was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 4.4 a game between them.

Matthew Golden finished WR89 and Woody Marks RB29, which are two different ladders.

Matthew Golden is a wide receiver and Woody Marks a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

1.9 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.