Should I start Rashod Bateman or Woody Marks in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rashod Bateman's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 62nd highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 4.6 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 71 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Woody Marks has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

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.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 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 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Rashod Bateman 4.3, 5.2 a game between them.

Rashod Bateman finished WR102 and Woody Marks RB29, which are two different ladders.

Rashod Bateman 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

Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13 and Woody Marks in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Woody Marks is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.