Should I start Amon-Ra St. Brown or Caleb Williams in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 1:16 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 26, 3:43 PM ET: Amon-Ra St. Brown: Listed Questionable (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Caleb Williams: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Amon-Ra St. Brown's 87 percent of the snaps and 30 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 Caleb Williams for Amon-Ra St. Brown?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Amon-Ra St. Brown projects 201 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (20.1 a game over 10 games), Caleb Williams 167 (18.5 a game over 9 games). Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed questionable.

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

Amon-Ra St. Brown

WR2 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Market-based projection: 17.9 pts a game

Caleb Williams

QB3 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs pass yds line 3-1

Overall rank: 6

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The gap

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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 Amon-Ra St. Brown, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 6th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

The market-based projections

Amon-Ra St. Brown's market-based projection is 17.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Caleb Williams is 17.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Caleb Williams's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Amon-Ra St. Brown has been on the field for 87 percent of DET snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 22 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 68 targets have averaged 8.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 8 of 11 targets for 75 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 6 of 11 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against GB he carried 1 time for -1 yards, caught 9 of 11 targets for 153 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 97 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 150 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 150 dropbacks and scrambled 14 times.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.

In Week 7 against NE he completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Amon-Ra St. Brown played 17 games and scored 324.0 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing WR3.

He caught 117 of 172 targets for 1401 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 34 red zone targets.

That came to 10.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.

He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 they scored the same 19.1 PPR points a game.

Amon-Ra St. Brown finished WR3 and Caleb Williams QB5, which are two different ladders.

Amon-Ra St. Brown is a wide receiver and Caleb Williams a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Amon-Ra St. Brown is off in Week 6 and Caleb Williams in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Caleb Williams 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 Caleb Williams for Amon-Ra St. Brown?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Amon-Ra St. Brown projects 201 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (20.1 a game over 10 games), Caleb Williams 167 (18.5 a game over 9 games). Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed questionable.
Should I drop Amon-Ra St. Brown for Caleb Williams?
No. Keep Amon-Ra St. Brown: he projects 201 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (20.1 a game over 10 games), Caleb Williams 167 (18.5 a game over 9 games). Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed questionable.