Should I start Austin Ekeler or Kyren Williams in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 43rd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 68 percent of LAR snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 76 third down targets, had 9 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 2.4 air yards.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 16 times for 99 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 16 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against WAS he carried 15 times for 45 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.

He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kyren Williams played 17 games and scored 263.3 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing RB9.

He carried 259 times for 1252 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 50 targets for 281 more yards.

That came to 15.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyren Williams was available for 15 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 8.9 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Kyren Williams RB9.

Kyren Williams had 245 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 259 to 14.

Kyren Williams had 31 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 36 to 5.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 25 percent.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger share of the carries, 54 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Austin Ekeler is off in Week 7 and Kyren Williams in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kyren Williams has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.