Woody Marks or Rico Dowdle: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Woody Marks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Woody Marks at 8.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 120th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

The market has Rico Dowdle at 8.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Rico Dowdle's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Woody Marks has been on the field for 46 percent of HOU snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 2.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against CIN he carried 8 times for 8 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

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 1.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 3.3 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 that year and Rico Dowdle RB18.

Rico Dowdle had 40 more carries than Woody Marks, 236 to 196.

Rico Dowdle had 15 more catches than Woody Marks, 39 to 24.

This season Woody Marks holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 42 percent.

This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 31 percent.

Byes and availability

Woody Marks is off in Week 8 and Rico Dowdle in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Rico Dowdle is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.