Should I start Kyren Williams or Bucky Irving in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bucky Irving, and the board ranks him 16th 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 32nd highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 15.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 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.

Bucky Irving'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, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 63 percent of TB snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 45 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 6 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against PIT he carried 19 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CAR he carried 24 times for 106 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against ATL he carried 27 times for 170 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 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyren Williams was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Bucky Irving 13.9, 1.6 a game between them.

Kyren Williams finished RB9 that year and Bucky Irving RB34.

Kyren Williams had 86 more carries than Bucky Irving, 259 to 173.

Kyren Williams had 6 more catches than Bucky Irving, 36 to 30.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 63 percent.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 57 percent against 55 percent.

Byes and availability

Kyren Williams is off in Week 11 and Bucky Irving in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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