Should I start Malik Willis or Austin Ekeler in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 9:16 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Malik Willis: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Austin Ekeler's 29 percent of the snaps and 28 percent of the carries. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB6 · MIA · bye 6
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- Market-based projection
- 18.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 64
RB23 · WAS · bye 7
- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game
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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 Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Malik Willis, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 254 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 254 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.
In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.
In Week 8 against NE he completed 21 of 32 passes for 211 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.
In Week 9 against DET he completed 13 of 24 passes for 128 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.
He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Malik Willis was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 6.2 a game between them.
Malik Willis finished QB45 and Austin Ekeler RB103, which are two different ladders.
Malik Willis is a quarterback and Austin Ekeler a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Malik Willis is off in Week 6 and Austin Ekeler in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Malik Willis is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Malik Willis has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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