Should I start Woody Marks or Troy Franklin in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Troy Franklin's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 69th highest figure of the 211 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 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.

Through Week 8, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 44 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 15.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 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 1-2 catches a game.

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

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 1.0 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

Woody Marks is a running back and Troy Franklin a wide receiver, 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 Troy Franklin in Week 10, 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.