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Should I start Brock Purdy or Jameson Williams in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 8:16 AM ET.

Start Brock Purdy: his market-based projection is 7.0 points a game ahead of Jameson Williams's this season.

Should I drop Jameson Williams for Brock Purdy?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 158 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (17.5 a game over 9 games), Jameson Williams 114 (11.4 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.

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The gap

  • Price difference7.0 points a game
  • Board size324 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from the market projection.

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 18.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Jameson Williams's market-based projection is 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jameson Williams, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 98 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 190 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 190 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 4 against DEN he completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 31 yards.

In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.

In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

Through Week 5, Jameson Williams has been on the field for 90 percent of DET snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 16.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 4 of 4 targets for 49 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 102 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 47 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jameson Williams played 17 games and scored 219.9 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR12.

He caught 65 of 102 targets for 1117 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 17.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 90 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jameson Williams was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Jameson Williams 12.9, 7.9 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Jameson Williams WR12, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Jameson Williams a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Jameson Williams in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.0 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Jameson Williams for Brock Purdy?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 158 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (17.5 a game over 9 games), Jameson Williams 114 (11.4 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Brock Purdy for Jameson Williams?

    No. Keep Brock Purdy: he projects 158 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (17.5 a game over 9 games), Jameson Williams 114 (11.4 a game over 10 games).

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