Should I start Justin Jefferson or Antonio Williams in Week 7?
Updated Oct 19, 8:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Justin Jefferson: 67 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Antonio Williams's 58 percent of the snaps and 17 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 · MIN · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 17.1 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 272
WR · WAS · bye 7
- Overall rank
- 274
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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 Justin Jefferson, and the board ranks him 272nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 4; 2QB: ADP 15.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Antonio Williams, and the board ranks him 274th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Justin Jefferson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Antonio Williams, 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 through Week 5
Through Week 5, Justin Jefferson has been on the field for 74 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 11 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 10 two minute targets.
His 24 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against CHI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 55 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB he caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NO he carried 1 time for -11 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 79 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Antonio Williams has been on the field for 52 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.
In Week 3 against SEA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Justin Jefferson played 17 games and scored 201.5 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR21.
He caught 84 of 141 targets for 1048 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.
That came to 8.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Antonio Williams is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Justin Jefferson holds the bigger snap share, 74 percent against 52 percent.
This season Justin Jefferson holds the bigger target share, 25 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Justin Jefferson is off in Week 6 and Antonio Williams in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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