Should I start Antonio Williams or Troy Franklin in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 12:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Antonio Williams: 78 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Troy Franklin's 57 percent of the snaps and 9 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
- 242
WR · DEN · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 2.4 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 248
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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 242nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 248th overall on the rest of his evidence.
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 Troy Franklin, 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 9
Through Week 9, Antonio Williams has been on the field for 61 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 39 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.
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.
In Week 9 against LAR he caught 3 of 6 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 45 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 0 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.
In Week 7 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against CAR he caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 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 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.
He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Antonio Williams holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 45 percent.
This season Antonio Williams holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 6 percent.
Byes and availability
Antonio Williams is off in Week 7 and Troy Franklin in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
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