Should I start Woody Marks or Ollie Gordon II in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 15.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

Ollie Gordon II's market-based projection is 9.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 214 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 so far

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 5, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 48 percent of MIA snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 5 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 18 times for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ollie Gordon II was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 6.3 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 that year and Ollie Gordon II RB68.

Woody Marks had 126 more carries than Ollie Gordon II, 196 to 70.

Woody Marks had 17 more catches than Ollie Gordon II, 24 to 7.

This season Woody Marks holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 48 percent.

This season Woody Marks holds the bigger share of the carries, 41 percent against 36 percent.

Byes and availability

Woody Marks is off in Week 8 and Ollie Gordon II in Week 6, 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.