Should I start Caleb Douglas or Caleb Williams in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Caleb Williams: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Caleb Douglas's 80 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets. 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.
WR34 · MIA · bye 6
- Market-based projection
- 8.4 pts a game
QB7 · CHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 72
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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 Caleb Douglas, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.
The market-based projections
Caleb Douglas's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Caleb Williams is 18.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Caleb Williams's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Caleb Douglas has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 2 of 3 targets for 70 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 8 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 43 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 97 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 186 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 186 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.
In Week 6 against ATL he completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.
In Week 7 against NE he completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.
In Week 8 against SEA he completed 24 of 34 passes for 247 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 2 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
Caleb Douglas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Side by side
Caleb Douglas is a wide receiver and Caleb Williams a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Caleb Douglas is off in Week 6 and Caleb Williams in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Caleb Williams has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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