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Should I start Antonio Williams or Rashid Shaheed in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 6:16 AM ET.

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Start Antonio Williams: 68 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Rashid Shaheed's 41 percent of the snaps and 15 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
230

WR · SEA · bye 11

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Overall rank
232

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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 230th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashid Shaheed, and the board ranks him 232nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 50.

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 Rashid Shaheed, 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 8, Antonio Williams has been on the field for 55 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 5 of 7 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Rashid Shaheed has been on the field for 49 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 1 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 Rashid Shaheed played 18 games and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Antonio Williams holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 49 percent.

This season Antonio Williams holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Antonio Williams is off in Week 7 and Rashid Shaheed in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rashid Shaheed is listed as out on the injury report.

Both players in full

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