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Should I start Caleb Williams or Chuba Hubbard in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 4:26 PM ET.

Start Caleb Williams: 96 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Chuba Hubbard's 87 percent of the snaps and 84 percent of the carries. 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.

Should I drop Chuba Hubbard for Caleb Williams?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.6 a game over 10 games), Chuba Hubbard 174 (15.8 a game over 11 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

QB5 · CHI · bye 10

2025 vs pass yds line 10-7

Market-based projection
18.8 pts a game

RB16 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs carries line 3-2

Market-based projection
15.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
56

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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 Williams, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chuba Hubbard, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Caleb Williams's market-based projection is 18.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Chuba Hubbard is 5.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 96 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 11 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.

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.

Through Week 6, Chuba Hubbard has been on the field for 80 percent of CAR snaps, taken 72 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 33 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 6 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CLE he carried 19 times for 82 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he carried 20 times for 122 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against PHI he carried 28 times for 120 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Chuba Hubbard played 15 games and scored 125.4 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB38.

He carried 134 times for 511 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 39 targets for 223 more yards.

That came to 8.9 carries a game at 3.8 yards a carry and 2.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Caleb Williams was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Chuba Hubbard 8.4, 10.8 a game between them.

Caleb Williams finished QB5 and Chuba Hubbard RB38, which are two different ladders.

Caleb Williams is a quarterback and Chuba Hubbard a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Caleb Williams is off in Week 10 and Chuba Hubbard in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Chuba Hubbard for Caleb Williams?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.6 a game over 10 games), Chuba Hubbard 174 (15.8 a game over 11 games).

  • Should I drop Caleb Williams for Chuba Hubbard?

    No. Keep Caleb Williams: he projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.6 a game over 10 games), Chuba Hubbard 174 (15.8 a game over 11 games).

Both players in full

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