Start Cade Otton or Mark Andrews? Week 6

Our Week 6 call

Start Mark Andrews over Cade Otton in Week 6.

Market-based projections have Mark Andrews at 9.6 points and Cade Otton at 7.6, a gap of 2.1. No player market is posted for Mark Andrews this week yet, so his 9.6 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (11.5, 9.2 and 8.2); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 6 player market is posted for Mark Andrews yet. His market-based projections were 11.5, 9.2 and 8.2 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 9.6, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.

The market gives Mark Andrews a 28% chance to score a touchdown (10 market sources).

Player markets imply 7.6 fantasy points for Cade Otton, with 100 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.

The market-based projection for Cade Otton is 31 receiving yards and 3-4 receptions, with a 17% chance to score a touchdown (7, 7 and 12 market sources).

That puts Mark Andrews 2.1 points ahead of Cade Otton on these projections.

Injury status

Mark Andrews is not on the injury report.

Cade Otton is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 6

Through Week 5, Mark Andrews played 65 percent of BAL snaps, drew 23 percent of the targets, earned 18 percent of the air yards and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

Mark Andrews, Week 2 against NO: 41 of 58 snaps, 7 targets and 6 catches for 49 yards.

Mark Andrews, Week 3 against DAL: 33 of 64 snaps, 5 targets and 3 catches for 24 yards.

Mark Andrews, Week 4 against TEN: 37 of 64 snaps, 6 targets and 5 catches for 27 yards, 1 touchdown.

Mark Andrews, Week 5 against ATL: 55 of 76 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 28 yards.

Through Week 5, Cade Otton played 93 percent of TB snaps, drew 18 percent of the targets, earned 16 percent of the air yards and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

Cade Otton, Week 2 against CLE: 58 of 65 snaps, 6 targets and 5 catches for 38 yards.

Cade Otton, Week 3 against MIN: 65 of 69 snaps, 6 targets and 3 catches for 56 yards.

Cade Otton, Week 4 against GB: 60 of 64 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 37 yards.

Cade Otton, Week 5 against DAL: 66 of 72 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 25 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Mark Andrews played 17 games for BAL and scored 131.0 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing TE16.

He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets and 321 air yards.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Cade Otton played 16 games for TB and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing TE22.

He caught 59 of 81 targets for 572 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets and 261 air yards.

He was on the field for 93 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 6 calls

• Start Mark Andrews over Brenton Strange.
• Start Mark Andrews over Colston Loveland.
• Start Dalton Kincaid over Mark Andrews.
• Start Cade Otton over AJ Barner.
• Start Brenton Strange over Cade Otton.
• Start Cade Otton over Chig Okonkwo.