Should I drop Tyler Higbee for Woody Marks?

Not on these numbers alone. Tyler Higbee projects 79 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.9 a game over 10 games) and Woody Marks 76 (7.6 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

Should I start Woody Marks or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 11:36 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Woody Marks: 70 percent of the snaps and 52 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tyler Higbee's 71 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Woody Marks for Tyler Higbee?

Not on these numbers alone. Woody Marks projects 76 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.6 a game over 10 games) and Tyler Higbee 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Woody Marks

RB26 · HOU · bye 8

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Market-based projection: 12.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 79

Tyler Higbee

TE9 · LAR · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 9.0 pts a game

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The gap

Board size304 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 201 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 through Week 6

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 6, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 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 1-2 catches a game.

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

In 2025 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Woody Marks was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 2.3 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 and Tyler Higbee TE40, which are two different ladders.

Woody Marks is a running back and Tyler Higbee 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 Tyler Higbee in Week 11, 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.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Woody Marks for Tyler Higbee?
Not on these numbers alone. Woody Marks projects 76 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.6 a game over 10 games) and Tyler Higbee 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.
Should I drop Tyler Higbee for Woody Marks?
Not on these numbers alone. Tyler Higbee projects 79 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.9 a game over 10 games) and Woody Marks 76 (7.6 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.