Caleb Williams or De'Zhaun Stribling: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 9, 2026 at 4:01 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, 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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QB35 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Overall rank
- 231
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
WR92 · SF · bye 8
- Overall rank
- 234
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 24
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size258 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Caleb Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 231st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.
Drafters have formed no consensus on De'Zhaun Stribling: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 234th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Caleb Williams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for De'Zhaun Stribling, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
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 1, De'Zhaun Stribling has been on the field for 32 percent of SF snaps, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.
In Week 1 against LAR he was not given the ball.
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.
De'Zhaun Stribling is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Caleb Williams is a quarterback and De'Zhaun Stribling a wide receiver, 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 De'Zhaun Stribling in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Caleb Williams is listed as out on the injury report.
De'Zhaun Stribling is listed as ir on the injury report.
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