Caleb Williams or Bryce Young: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 12:56 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Caleb Williams, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB12 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Books price
- 16.6 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 87
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
QB13 · CAR · bye 5
2025 vs pass yds line 6-10
- Books price
- 16.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Caleb Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bryce Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 91.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Caleb Williams, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Bryce Young at 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 93 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 70 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 1 against CAR he completed 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 10 times for 65 yards.
In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.
Through Week 2, Bryce Young has been on the field for 92 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 80 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 80 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 1 against CHI he completed 23 of 37 passes for 361 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 10 yards.
In Week 2 against ATL he completed 23 of 36 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.
He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.
He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Caleb Williams was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Bryce Young 14.3, 4.8 a game between them.
Caleb Williams finished QB5 that year and Bryce Young QB19.
Caleb Williams had 90 more pass attempts than Bryce Young, 568 to 478.
Caleb Williams had 931 more passing yards than Bryce Young, 3942 to 3011.
This season Caleb Williams holds the bigger snap share, 93 percent against 92 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Caleb Williams is off in Week 10 and Bryce Young in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Caleb Williams is listed as doubtful on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Caleb Williams has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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