Should I start Kyren Williams or Blake Corum in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 12th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kyren Williams's market-based projection is 15.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 224 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 13.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 68 percent of LAR snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 8 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 10 times for 50 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 8, Blake Corum has been on the field for 30 percent of LAR snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 9 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 17 times for 93 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 11 times for 73 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8-9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 8.3 a game between them.

Kyren Williams finished RB9 that year and Blake Corum RB40.

Kyren Williams had 114 more carries than Blake Corum, 259 to 145.

Kyren Williams had 28 more catches than Blake Corum, 36 to 8.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 30 percent.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger share of the carries, 55 percent against 37 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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