Should I start Antonio Williams or Chris Olave in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Chris Olave: 73 percent of the snaps and 25 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Antonio Williams's 68 percent of the snaps and 16 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR · WAS · bye 7
- Overall rank
- 229
WR · NO · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 15.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 231
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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 Antonio Williams, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Olave, and the board ranks him 231st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In standard drafts he goes at ADP 9.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Antonio Williams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Chris Olave, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Antonio Williams has been on the field for 55 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 12 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 11.7 air yards.
In Week 4 against IND he caught 3 of 8 targets for 21 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NYG he caught 3 of 3 targets for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SF he caught 3 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Chris Olave has been on the field for 81 percent of NO snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 19 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 71 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.
In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 46 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYG he caught 4 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against PIT he caught 6 of 10 targets for 56 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Antonio Williams is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Chris Olave played 16 games and scored 269.0 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing WR6.
He caught 100 of 156 targets for 1163 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Chris Olave holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 55 percent.
This season Chris Olave holds the bigger target share, 27 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Antonio Williams is off in Week 7 and Chris Olave in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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