Start Woody Marks or Emmett Johnson? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Emmett Johnson over Woody Marks
Right: 8.8 to 5.0
- DEN D vs RB
- 42.9
- 2nd most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 36%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 8%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 8.8
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 3.1
- fantasy pts
- BUF D vs RB
- 33.9
- 7th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 51%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 3%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 5.0
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Emmett Johnson over Woody Marks in Week 1.
Woody Marks is priced by the books at 3.1 projected points and Emmett Johnson is not priced at all, so we are leaning on where drafters take them. Drafters take Emmett Johnson at ADP 158 and Woody Marks at 151.
What the books imply
Player prop markets imply 3.1 fantasy points for Woody Marks, with 40 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
No sportsbook posted a player market for Emmett Johnson in Week 1.
Week 1 matchups
Woody Marks and HOU host BUF on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
BUF allowed 33.9 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 7th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 102 yards and 2 touchdowns against BUF and caught passes for 17 more yards.
Emmett Johnson and KC host DEN.
DEN allowed 42.9 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 2nd most in the league.
Running backs ran for 197 yards and a touchdown against DEN and caught passes for 62 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Emmett Johnson has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Woody Marks was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Emmett Johnson was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Woody Marks played 16 games for HOU and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.
He ran 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 yards.
He was on the field for 53 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Woody Marks, Week 18 of 2025 against IND: 10 carries for 48 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 0 yards, 6.8 PPR points.
Woody Marks, Week 17 of 2025 against LAC: 44 of 65 snaps, 19 carries for 71 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 4 yards, 8.5 PPR points.
Woody Marks, Week 15 of 2025 against ARI: 15 of 67 snaps, 7 carries for 30 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 8 yards, 10.8 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Emmett Johnson scored 8.8 PPR points and Woody Marks scored 5.0.
The call was right: Emmett Johnson outscored Woody Marks by 3.8.
Emmett Johnson, Week 1 against DEN: 25 of 69 snaps, 8 carries for 24 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 44 yards, 8.8 PPR points.
Emmett Johnson finished as the week's RB32 in PPR scoring.
Woody Marks finished 1.9 points above the 3.1 the props implied.
Woody Marks, Week 1 against BUF: 40 of 79 snaps, 9 carries for 42 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for -2 yards, 5.0 PPR points.
Woody Marks finished as the week's RB42 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB27 · HOU · bye 8
2025 vs catches line 3-7
- Overall rank
- 55
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
RB59 · KC · bye 5
- Overall rank
- 240
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board185
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 4 and tier 13
- Board size244 draftable players
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