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Should I start Kyle Williams or Ashton Jeanty in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 2:06 PM ET.

Start Ashton Jeanty: 60 percent of the snaps and 55 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kyle Williams's 32 percent of the snaps and 6 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 Kyle Williams for Ashton Jeanty?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Ashton Jeanty projects 162 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 10 games), Kyle Williams 32 (3.2 a game over 10 games).

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

WR30 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
4.3 pts a game

RB24 · LV · bye 13

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Market-based projection
16.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
75

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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 Kyle Williams, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ashton Jeanty, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 25.

The market-based projections

Kyle Williams's market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ashton Jeanty is 4.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Kyle Williams has been on the field for 28 percent of NE snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 16.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 3 of 3 targets for 91 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 70 percent of LV snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 44 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 9 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 1.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against KC he carried 15 times for 58 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NE he carried 10 times for 27 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BUF he carried 10 times for 22 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 36 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Williams played 17 games and scored 49.2 PPR points, 2.9 a game, finishing WR112.

He caught 10 of 21 targets for 209 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.2 targets a game, a 48 percent catch rate and 20.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty played 17 games and scored 245.1 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing RB11.

He carried 266 times for 975 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 55 of 73 targets for 346 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 3.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty scored 14.4 PPR points a game and Kyle Williams 2.9, 11.5 a game between them.

Kyle Williams finished WR112 and Ashton Jeanty RB11, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Williams is a wide receiver and Ashton Jeanty a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyle Williams is off in Week 11 and Ashton Jeanty in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Ashton Jeanty 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 Kyle Williams for Ashton Jeanty?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Ashton Jeanty projects 162 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 10 games), Kyle Williams 32 (3.2 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Ashton Jeanty for Kyle Williams?

    No. Keep Ashton Jeanty: he projects 162 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 10 games), Kyle Williams 32 (3.2 a game over 10 games).

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