Should I start Woody Marks or Pat Freiermuth in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pat Freiermuth, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 213 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 9, Woody Marks has been on the field for 62 percent of HOU snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 51 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 1.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 15 times for 56 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he carried 19 times for 66 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAC he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 8.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 35 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 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.

He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Pat Freiermuth was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Pat Freiermuth 6.7, 2.8 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 and Pat Freiermuth TE25, which are two different ladders.

Woody Marks is a running back and Pat Freiermuth 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 Pat Freiermuth in Week 9, 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.